Vincent v. McNamara
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for a malicious attachment of the plaintiff’s property and the consequent injury to his business, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the court, Elmer, J., upon the defendant’s demurrer to the complaint; the court sustained the demurrer and rendered judgment for the defendant, and the plaintiff appealed for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. Error and judgment reversed.
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Action to recover damages for a malicious attachment of the plaintiff’s property and the consequent injury to his business, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the court, Elmer, J., upon the defendant’s demurrer to the complaint; the court sustained the demurrer and rendered judgment for the defendant, and the plaintiff appealed for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. Error and judgment reversed. In this court the appellee filed a plea in abatement. The complaint alleged that on October 16th, 1894, the defendant owned the only feed store and grist min in a…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
The appellee filed a plea in abatement with *337the clerk of the Supreme Court of Errors for New Haven, county on the Friday preceding the first day of the January term of the court to be held at New Haven, in the third judicial district, to which term the appeal had been taken. The appellant moved that the plea be stricken from the files, because it was not filed with the clerk of the court for Fairfield county. This motion was denied, and the point of practice thus decided is of such importance that the court deem it proper to state the reasons which led to that result, particularly as in…
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