Pope v. Skinkle
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On demurrer to declaration.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Dixon, J.
The declaration demurred to is in trover, and
avers that the plaintiff was possessed of a building described as a “three-story frame flat-roof dwelling-house, twenty-five feet front by forty feet deep,” that the same was personal property, that he lost it out of his possession, and it came to the possession of the defendant, &c.
The objection raised on demurrer is that the structure in question was real estate.
If the above-recited allegations of the plaintiff are well pleaded, the demurrant of course must fail, since he in that ease admits the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Osgood v. HowardSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1830
- Ham v. KendallMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1873
3Cited by1 opinion
- Chabon v. LazarusNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1952