Downie v. Nettleton
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover for the conversion of personal property by the defendant; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County. The defendant filed a motion for a disclosure, to which the plaintiff demurred. The court (Thayer, Jl,) sustained the demurrer. The case was then tried to the court, which made a finding of the facts and rendered judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant appealed. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
This is an action for the conversion of personal property. The defendant in his answer denies that the goods sued for were the property of the plaintiff. In his second defense he alleges that he was a deputy-sheriff for New Haven County; that the goods were the property of William M. Reynolds, or of his wife, Jessie Reynolds; and that he took and now holds them under lawful writs of attachment to him directed for service against said William M. and Jessie Reynolds. The plaintiff in his reply denies that the title to the property is in William M. Reynolds or Jessie Reynolds. •
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