Day v. Webb
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action on the ease, brought under the statute (Rev. Stat., tit. 1, sec. 283,) which provides that when any person shall be guilty of fraud in the contracting of a debt, or shall conceal or remove his property to prevent the same being taken by legal process, or shall refuse to pay a debt admitted or established by a judgment, while having money, or property exempt from.execution, sufficient to discharge the same, concealed or withheld, &c., any creditor aggrieved thereby may…
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Action on the ease, brought under the statute (Rev. Stat., tit. 1, sec. 283,) which provides that when any person shall be guilty of fraud in the contracting of a debt, or shall conceal or remove his property to prevent the same being taken by legal process, or shall refuse to pay a debt admitted or established by a judgment, while having money, or property exempt from.execution, sufficient to discharge the same, concealed or withheld, &c., any creditor aggrieved thereby may institute an action on the case against such person, setting forth his debt in his declaration, and setting forth…
1Opinion of the Court
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* Waldo, J.
The only questions presented in this case relate to the sufficiency of the verdict, each party claiming that the court can, with suitable changes, “ work the finding of the jury into form,’’ so that a judgment might be rendered in his favor, while both seem to admit that it is now informal, if not fatally defective. A verdict may be defined to be, the answer of the jury to the questions of fact- contained in the issue formed by the pleadings of the parties. It may be general or special. A general verdict directly finds or negates all the facts in issue in a general form. A…
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