Buck v. Seymour
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Replevin, for sundry articles of personal property claimed by the plaintiff as a mortgagee of the Connecticut Yalley Railroad Company; brought by the treasurer of the state as trustee for the bondholders secured by the mortgage. The defendant pleaded the general issue, with notice that he had attached the property as "an officer and held it as such when it was taken from him upon the replevin, and demanded its return.
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Replevin, for sundry articles of personal property claimed by the plaintiff as a mortgagee of the Connecticut Yalley Railroad Company; brought by the treasurer of the state as trustee for the bondholders secured by the mortgage. The defendant pleaded the general issue, with notice that he had attached the property as "an officer and held it as such when it was taken from him upon the replevin, and demanded its return. The property claimed in the writ was as follows: three sofas, four office desks, five ticket boxes, fifty-two chairs, five stoves with pipe, three hand trucks, thirteen…
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
This is an action of replevin instituted by the plaintiff as trustee for the second mortgage bondholders of the Connecticut Valley Railroad Company, to obtain possession of certain personal property which had belonged to the company and was claimed to be covered by the mortgage.
The Connecticut Valley Railroad Company was incorporated in 1868, with power to construct a railroad from Saybrook to Hartford, and to issue bonds and mortgage its property to secure them. In 1873 it borrowed $1,250,000 for the completion and equipment of its road, and secured it by a second mortgage upon all of its…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Walker v. VaughnSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1866
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