Weeks v. Barron
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trover for one “barber’s chair.” Plea, the general issue and trial by jury, April Term, 1865, Pierpoint, J., presiding. On trial the plaintiff claimed, and gave evidence tending to show that in October, 1863, he lent a barber’s chair, belonging to him, to one Eugene Le Barron, a Frenchman, who shortly afterwards left .the state, and that it had never been returned to him, nor had he been paid for it; that about a year previous to the trial, the plaintiff having heard that…
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Trover for one “barber’s chair.” Plea, the general issue and trial by jury, April Term, 1865, Pierpoint, J., presiding. On trial the plaintiff claimed, and gave evidence tending to show that in October, 1863, he lent a barber’s chair, belonging to him, to one Eugene Le Barron, a Frenchman, who shortly afterwards left .the state, and that it had never been returned to him, nor had he been paid for it; that about a year previous to the trial, the plaintiff having heard that the chair was in the possession of the defendant in his hotel at White River Junction, went there and demanded the chair…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Kellogg, J.
This case has been heard on the-defendant’s petition for a new trial, and also on his exceptions taken on the trial in the county court. The cause assigned in the petition is that the verdict was against the weight of the evidence. The points which were controverted on the trial were, (1,) whether the chair which was the subject of the action was in the defendant’s possession when *423•it was demanded of him by the plaintiff or his agent, and (2,) whether the defendant, on such demand, refused to deliver it up. On both points there was…
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