Jackson v. Innes
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tokt for the conversion of a boat. Writ in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston dated February 8,1915. The pleadings, the evidence and the rulings of the trial judge objected to by the defendant are described in the opinion. The judge found for the plaintiff and at the request of the defendant reported the case to the Appellate Division, who dismissed the report. The defendant appealed. The case was submitted on briefs.
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The declaration alleges in substance that the defendant on or about the seventeenth day of June, 1914, with force and arms took and carried away the boat in question, and converted it to his own use, and for a long time deprived the plaintiff of the use, and destroyed portions of the upper works, and made various alterations, and broke, defaced and otherwise injured it, whereby the boat was rendered less valuable for the purposes of the plaintiff, and putting him to “great labor and expense to restore the boat to the condition in which it was when taken by the defendant.”
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