Buckingham v. Billings
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
'Trespass for taking and carrying away one printing-press, of the value of $75 ; 560 pounds of long primer types, of the value of $ 366 ; 530 pounds of brevier types, of the value of $ 397 ; and 34 wooden cases, of the value of $ 34 ; and converting the same to the defendant’s use.
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'Trespass for taking and carrying away one printing-press, of the value of $75 ; 560 pounds of long primer types, of the value of $ 366 ; 530 pounds of brevier types, of the value of $ 397 ; and 34 wooden cases, of the value of $ 34 ; and converting the same to the defendant’s use. The defendant, besides the general issue which was joined, pleaded a special justification in bar, that, as a deputy sheriff of this county, by virtue of a writ of attachment sued, out of the Court of Common Pleas for this county, and directed to the sheriff or his deputy, commanding them to * attach the said…
1Opinion of the CourtParker, C. J.
The replication in this case avers, that the articles taken were tools of trade, necessary for the occupation of the plaintiff. The rejoinder denies that fact. And the special verdict finds that the articles were a printing-press, types, and certain other implements of a printing-office ; that other articles of the like nature, and of the value of more than $ 1600, were left unattached ; and that the articles taken weie necessary to enable the plaintiff to prosecute his business in the extensive manner he had been accustomed to carry it on ; but that he *74might, with the implements that were…
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