Legal Opinion

Schlesinger v. Chapman

Supreme Court of Connecticut

Decided February 9, 1885PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Replevin for liquors taken and carried away; brought to the City Court of the city of Hartford and tried before Bennett, J. Facts found and judgment for the plaintiffs, and appeal by the defendants. The-case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtLoomis, J.

This is a complaint in replevin to recover possession of certain spirituous and intoxicating liquors which had been attached as the property of one Moore by Chapman (one of the defendants) as deputy sheriff, and which at the commencement of this suit were held by him in that capacity under a writ of attachment in favor of A. & H. Myers (also defendants) and against Moore.

The answer of the defendants in this suit, by way of first defense, set forth the facts concerning the attachment as above, and alleged that the liquors when so attached belonged to Moore and not to the plaintiffs.

The second…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Donohue v. MaloneySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1881

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Styles v. TylerSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1894
  2. Guarantee Trust & Safe Deposit Co. v. Philadelphia, Reading & New England RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1897
  3. Carroll v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1949
  4. Rogers & Brother v. RogersSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1885
  5. Brewster v. CowenSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1887

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