Dalton v. Thurston

This is replevin for lumber valued at $2,500. The writ was served August 6,1884. The case is tried to the court on law and fact, jury trial being waived. The testimony shows that the defendant’s assignor had carried on a lumber business in Wickford, R. L, for about nineteen years prior to July, 1884; that he had traded with the plaintiffs to some extent for about fifteen years; and that the lumber in suit was delivered to him by them early in June, 1884, on an order for it given by him at their solicitation the previous March. On July 17,1884, he- made a general assignment to the defendant…