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125 Mass. 481

Bourne v. Buffington

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided October 26, 1878

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1878-10-26

Replevin. The answer denied the plaintiff’s title, and alleged that the goods were the property of William Hayes, and were attached by the defendant, a constable of Fall River, while in the possession of Hayes, by a creditor of his, and that any transfer from Hayes to the plaintiff was fraudulent and designed to impede the insolvent laws of Massachusetts and the bankrupt laws of the United States.

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently March 1942

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Decided 1878-10-26

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By the Court.

¶1Assuming the bills of sale made three years before to be material to the issue on trial, no error is shown in the exclusion of secondary evidence of them. Whether sufficient notice to produce the originals had been given, was a question of fact for the decision of the presiding judge. The answer of the plaintiff’s counsel to the request made at the beginning of the trial, “ that the plaintiff did not have them in his posses* *483sion,” might well be understood to mean that he did not then have them with him.

¶2The defendant not claiming under proceedings in bankruptcy or insolvency, no error is shown in the refusal or omission of instructions. Exceptions overruled.

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