Enscoe v. Dunn
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Four actions of covenant upon receipts given to officers for property attached; brought to the City Court of tlie city of Now Haven, and tried to the court upon the general issue before Stoddard, J. Facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiffs, and motions in error by the several defendants. The cases are fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
The finding of the court discloses that on the *948th day of April, 1873, a writ of attachment in a case in which Solomon Rosenbluth was plaintiff and Joseph Dunn was defendant, returnable to the Court of Common Pleas of New Haven County, at its May term, was placed in the hands of Michael R. Enscoe, the present plaintiff, then a constable for the town of New Haven, with instructions to serve and return. This writ was legal in form and commanded the officer serving it to attach property to the value of six hundred dollars. On the next day Enscoe went to Dunn’s house and told him that he had come…
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