Hussey v. Thornton
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Replevin for seventy-seven boxes of candles, which the defendants, as officers, had attached as the property of Todd and Worthley, at the suit of certain of their creditors.- Upon trial at the last October term in this county, before Thatcher, J., it was agreed that the demands of the said attaching creditors were just, and existed before the making the after-mentioned contract between the plaintiffs and the said Todd and Worthley.
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Replevin for seventy-seven boxes of candles, which the defendants, as officers, had attached as the property of Todd and Worthley, at the suit of certain of their creditors.- Upon trial at the last October term in this county, before Thatcher, J., it was agreed that the demands of the said attaching creditors were just, and existed before the making the after-mentioned contract between the plaintiffs and the said Todd and Worthley. It appeared in evidence that, in the month of February, 1807, the plaintiffs, then being the undisputed owners of the said candles, agreed to sell them to Todd and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was afterwards delivered by
Parsons, C. J.
The question to be decided in this case is, in whom the property of the boxes of candles was, at the time the writ of replevin was executed. The case shows that they were once the undisputed property of the plaintiffs; and, unless they have divested themselves of the title to them, they must recover in this action. They at first refused to sell them to Todd and Worthley, without some further security than their single assumpsit. They had probably forgotten, at the moment of actual delivery, the condition for which they had…
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