Hobbs v. Carr
| Citation | 127 Mass. 532 |
| Parties | George W. Hobbs v. L. B. Carr |
| Decision Date | 27 October 1879 |
| Court | United States State Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Supreme Court |
Worcester. Tort for the conversion of eight hundred bushels of ashes. The defendant, a deputy sheriff, justified under a writ against Charles A. Irons, by virtue of which he attached the ashes as his property. Trial in the Superior Court without a jury, before Dewey, J., who, after verdict for the plaintiff, reported the case for the consideration of this court in substance as follows:
On March 30, 1877, Charles A. Irons, who was the owner of a large quantity of ashes, which was on his premises, made a bill of sale of the same to the plaintiff, the consideration and agreement as to the same being as follows: Irons owed the plaintiff $ 20, and the latter had in his hands for collection demands against Irons to the amount of $ 34, and they agreed that the plaintiff should purchase all the ashes of Irons at the rate of fifteen cents per bushel, and that after he had sold the same, he should account to and pay over to Irons whatever balance remained over and above the $ 54.
The plaintiff never went on the premises where the ashes were but, on the day of the sale, he directed Irons to obtain permission of one Taft, who owned a tract of land near that occupied by Irons, to have the ashes, as they were removed, placed on Taft's land. Irons, in behalf of the plaintiff, obtained such permission, and had removed one hundred and twenty-six bushels of the ashes to Taft's land, when the defendant, on April 4, 1877, attached those ashes and also the ashes remaining on Irons's land on a writ against Irons, and prevented the removal of the remaining ashes. All the ashes were subsequently sold by the defendant, on the execution issued on the judgment rendered in said suit. At the time of the attachment there were remaining on Irons's land five hundred and twenty-six bushels of ashes, the value of which was twenty cents per bushel.
Upon the above facts, the plaintiff contended that there was a sale and delivery to him of all the ashes. The defendant contended that there had never been such sale and delivery, and that Irons had an attachable interest in the same on April 4.
The judge found for the plaintiff in the sum of $ 25.20, for the value of the ashes deposited on Taft's land. If the plaintiff was entitled to recover for all the ashes, judgment was to be entered for him for $ 130.40; if he was not entitled to recover,...
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