Pike v. Crehore
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Exceptions from Nisi Prius, Shepley, C. J., presiding. This was an action in review, tried at the Oct. term, 1854. The original action, Crehore v. Pike, was assumpsit for money had and received, commenced on April 10, 1849, and tried, under the general issue, in August, 1851, when a verdict was returned for the plaintiff.
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On Exceptions from Nisi Prius, Shepley, C. J., presiding. This was an action in review, tried at the Oct. term, 1854. The original action, Crehore v. Pike, was assumpsit for money had and received, commenced on April 10, 1849, and tried, under the general issue, in August, 1851, when a verdict was returned for the plaintiff. On the trial in review, the original plaintiff introduced evidence tending to show that, on Sept. 2,1834, he enclosed, from Boston, a $500 bill on the Oriental Bank, by mail, to said Pike, at Kingfield, Maine, being indebted to him in that or a larger sum, and that Pike,…
1Opinion of the CourtRice, J.
The case comes before us on exceptions. The first objection to the ruling of the Judge who tried the cause is founded on the exclusion of testimony offered, to prove that, in 1836, letters were found secreted in a house in which one Emery lived, in Sept. 1834, in the town of Industry. Said Emery, in 1834, carried the mail through Industry to Kingfield, over one of the routes by which a letter from Boston might pass on its way to Kingfield. The letters found secreted, bore date in 1834, had been opened, and were directed to persons residing in Kingfield. But it did not appear that Emery lived…
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