Bond v. Endicott
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort against the sheriff of Norfolk for the conversion of a horse. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Dunbar, J., the defendant denied that the plaintiff was the owner of the horse, and justified under a writ of Caroline T. Norris, administratrix, against Anna L. 'Wiswell, by virtue of which the horse was attached as her property by a deputy of his.
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Tort against the sheriff of Norfolk for the conversion of a horse. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Dunbar, J., the defendant denied that the plaintiff was the owner of the horse, and justified under a writ of Caroline T. Norris, administratrix, against Anna L. 'Wiswell, by virtue of which the horse was attached as her property by a deputy of his. The plaintiff introduced evidence tending to show that he bought the horse of George W. Norris, and paid him for it on April 25, 1881, and received a bill of sale of the horse, which was then in a boarding stable; that the next day there…
1Opinion of the CourtField, J.
The plaintiff’s claim was that the horse had been sold and delivered to him by George W. Norris, who was the owner, and that he had paid the price to Norris, and had received from him a bill of sale. The defendant was permitted to introduce evidence tending to contradict this, and to show that the horse remained in the possession of Norris until his death, and that the horse had never been delivered to the plaintiff. The evidence which the defendant offered, and which was *284excluded, was in substance that Anna L. Wiswell, who was the housekeeper of Norris at the time of his death, wrongfully…
2Cited by1 opinion
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