Stone v. Sleeper

Trover. Facts found by a referee. The plaintiff’s goods were in the possession of Pomfret, under an agreement that they should be his when he paid for them. Without paying for them, Pom-fret absconded, and gave a bill of sale of all his “ claim, right, and title to ” them to Carpenter, one of his creditors, who had notice of the plaintiff’s claim. Carpenter sold the goods to the defendant.