Merrils v. Tariff Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action on the case. The declaration stated, That on the 9th of April, 1822, the plaintiff was seised and possessed, in his own right in fee simple, of a moiety in common and undivided of certain clothier’s works, at Griswold’s Mills in Simsbury, consisting of land and water privileges, dye-house, fulling-mill, finishing shop, machinery, tools and apparatus, of the value of 1500 dollars, and mortgaged his said moiety of the premises, by mortgage deed, then…
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This was an action on the case. The declaration stated, That on the 9th of April, 1822, the plaintiff was seised and possessed, in his own right in fee simple, of a moiety in common and undivided of certain clothier’s works, at Griswold’s Mills in Simsbury, consisting of land and water privileges, dye-house, fulling-mill, finishing shop, machinery, tools and apparatus, of the value of 1500 dollars, and mortgaged his said moiety of the premises, by mortgage deed, then executed and delivered, to Luther Laflin, to secure certain promissory notes due to him from the plaintiff; that previous to…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Huntington, J.
This case comes before us, to correct a supposed error in the instruction given to the jury at the trial, that in estimating the damages, they were at liberty to take into consideration, the fraudulent and malicious motives and objects with which the defendants are charged to have committed the injury set forth in the declaration, f It is insisted, that in actions on the case for injuries to personal property, the pecuniary loss sustained, is the measure of legal compensation. It is admitted, that in actions of trespass for similar…
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