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127 Mass. 532

Hobbs v. Carr

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided October 27, 1879

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1879-10-27

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.

Relies on Ingalls v. Herrick

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Decided 1879-10-27

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Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently October 1912

1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

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Gray, C. J.

¶1The report shows that Irons had agreed to sell, and Hobbs to buy, the whole quantity of ashes at a certain price by the bushel; and that Irons had been directed by Hobbs to remove the ashes, and, acting as his agent, had removed a considerable part of them to a place designated by Hobbs, before they were attached as the property of Irons. It was not contended at the trial, nor at the argument, that, if the title passed, it was by way of pledge or mortgage. These facts show, 1st, a contract by which the title to the whole quantity passed immediately, as between the parties; and 2d, an actual delivery of part, in token of a delivery of the whole, which was sufficient to enable the buyer to hold the property as against an attaching creditor of the seller. Leonard v. Davis, 1 Black, 476. Macomber v. Parker, 13 Pick. 175. Legg v. Willard, 17 Pick. 140. Riddle v. Varnum, 20 Pick. 280. Stinson v. Clark, 6 Allen, 340. Ingalls v. Herrick, 108 Mass. 351. By the terms of the report, therefore, there must be

¶2Judgment for the plaintiff for the larger sum.

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