Selleck v. Head
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Petition for a row trial and other equitable relief, brougñt to the Superior Court in Fairfield County where a demurrer to the complaint was sustained (Case, J.) and, after a proposed amendment of the complaint had been disallowed (Thayer, J.), judgment was rendered (Elmer, J.) for the defendant, from which the plaintiffs appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtTorrance, C. J.
The present appeal is taken from the action of the trial court in dismissing a petition for a new trial, on account of newly-discovered evidence, brought by the defendants in the case of Head v. Selleck, 76 Conn. 706. The defenses in that case were in substance these: (1) that the two judgments sued upon had been paid and satisfied; (2) that Head (the plaintiff in that case) had assigned said judgments to Darius and Benjamin Selleck, who had received from the defendants in that case certain valuable property upon the express trust and agreement that they (said Darius and Benjamin) would pay…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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