Livermore v. Bagley
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was trover for sundry articles formerly the property of the bankrupt, and which the plaintiff charges the defendant with having converted to his own use. The cause was tried at the sittings after November term, 1806 before Seivall, J., whose report follows.
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This was trover for sundry articles formerly the property of the bankrupt, and which the plaintiff charges the defendant with having converted to his own use. The cause was tried at the sittings after November term, 1806 before Seivall, J., whose report follows. “ The Newburyport Marine Insurance Company, in the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Essex, July term, 1802, recovered a judgment against Edmund Bartlet, since declared a bankrupt, and on the 10th day of the same July sued out an execution thereupon. In the same month, Richard Bartlet was employed by the said Edmund, and his…
1Opinion of the Court
The cause stood continued nisi for advisement, and at the March term, 1808, in Suffolk, the opinion of the Court (except the Chief Justice, who, having been of counsel with the plaintiff, did not sit in the cause, and except, also, Thatcher, J., who did not hear the argument) was delivered as follows, by
Sewall, J.
The plaintiff, assignee ,of Edmund Bartlet, a bankupt, demands damages for certain goods alleged to have been converted by the defendant. To prove his property, he has endeavored to show that the goods in question belonged to the bankrupt at the time of the bankruptcy ; and so…
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