Stephens v. Vroman
New York Supreme Court
Motion by the plaintiff, for a new trial, on exceptions taken at the circuit. The complaint set forth in substance that the plaintiff, on and prior to November lltb, 1850, was in the possession and owner of a barn and its contents, situate in the town of Lenox, and county of Madison, of the value of $2700. That the defendant, on the said 11th day of November, 1850, wrongfully set fire to and burned the said barn, so that said barn and its contents were wholly destroyed, to…
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Motion by the plaintiff, for a new trial, on exceptions taken at the circuit. The complaint set forth in substance that the plaintiff, on and prior to November lltb, 1850, was in the possession and owner of a barn and its contents, situate in the town of Lenox, and county of Madison, of the value of $2700. That the defendant, on the said 11th day of November, 1850, wrongfully set fire to and burned the said barn, so that said barn and its contents were wholly destroyed, to his damage of $3000. The defendant, in his answer, denied the complaint. The cause came on for trial at the Oneida…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Bacon, J.
The long protracted controversy between these parties, after having passed the ordeal of three trials, two in Madison county and one in Oneida, resulting in the disagreement of the juries empanneled to try it, has finally terminated, so far as the action of a jury passing upon the questions of fact is concerned, by a verdict rendered for the defendant, upon the fourth trial, before Mr. Justice Allen, at a special circuit held in Oneida county, in September, 1853. Upon every trial there has been a vast array of testimony, upon each side. The case is one of considerable…
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