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32 Me. 190

Cartland v. Morrison

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided July 1, 1850

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · decided 1850-07-01

Exceptions from the District Court, Hathaway, J. presiding. Trover for a yoke of oxen. They were formerly the property of defendant. He was keeping them in the pasture of one Fuller. He proposed to sell them to Garland, at a fixed price, to be paid in hauling. Garland consented to buy, if he could get Calef to receive them of him upon a debt. Defendant gave Garland a writing, addressed to Fuller, to deliver the cattle.

Decided 1850-07-01

Wells, J.,

¶1orally.—The claim to a nonsuit is not insisted upon. In withholding the other instruction requested, there was nothing Avrongful. Defendant has argued, that as both parties claim under Clark, the vendee who first obtained the possession is entitled. But there was no ruling, or request for ruling, on that point. It is not for decision here. The ruling was, that if defendant’s possession was wrongful, the re-sale from Clark to the plaintiff was valid without a formal delivery. That ruling is in accordance with the rules of law.

¶2Exceptions overruled.

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