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59 N.H. 573

Hall v. Nelson

Supreme Court of New Hampshire

Decided June 5, 1880

Supreme Court of New Hampshire · decided 1880-06-05

Trespass, for the caption and conversion of a wagon. The defendants justified under an attachment in July, 1.879. Facts found by a referee. The wagon was the only one owned by the plaintiff. He used it for ordinary family purposes, and in 1878 and 1879 he used the hind wheels in connection with a rack and other wheels to draw the hay cut on his farm to the barn, and in harvesting other crops.

Relies on Noyes v. Patrick · Allard v. Hamilton

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Decided 1880-06-05

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Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1944

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Stanley, J.

¶1 The question at issue was, whether the wagon, when attached, was exempt either as a farming tool, or a tool of the plaintiff’s occupation. This was a question of fact to be determined by the referee upon all the evidence, and the finding for the *574 plaintiff was a finding of every material fact upon which the plaintiff’s right of recovery depended. Allard v. Hamilton, 58 N. H. 416; Noyes v. Patrick, 58 N. H. 618; Rice v. Wadsworth, ante 100; Richards v. Hubbard, ante 158; Gceorge v. Fellows, ante 206.

¶2 Exceptions overruled.

Foster, J., did not sit: the others concurred.
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