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59 Vt. 363

Lewis v. Clark

Supreme Court of Vermont

Decided January 15, 1887

Supreme Court of Vermont · decided 1887-01-15

Tkovee for three tons of hay. Heard on a referee’s report, September Term, 1886, Veazet, J., presiding. Judgment for the plaintiff to recover $34.40, the value of three tons of hay. The plaintiffs having carried on for one year the defendant’s farm under a verbal lease by which each was to have one-hálf the avails and products, moved away from the premises at the expiration of the lease, leaving six tons of undivided hay raised on said farm.

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Decided 1887-01-15

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¶1The opinion of the court was delivered bj

Taft, J.

¶2The parties were tenants in common of the six tons of hay sued for. No division or disposition of the other hay raised upon the leased premises, as shown by the report, affects the title to the six tons in question. The defendant used part of the six tons. He had no right to use the plaintiffs’ half, and is liable in trover for so doing ; he sold that part of the six tons which he did not use. The sale of a chattel by one tenant in common is not such a destruction of it as to enable the co-tenant to maintain trover. The defendant is not liable in respect to the hay sold. There was error in rendering-judgment for one-half of the six tons ; it should have been for only one-half of the hay used by the defendant. As the report does not show the amount nor value of it, no judgment can be rendered in this court. The case will be remanded to the County Court for such further proceedings as may be permitted there.

¶3judgment reversed, and cause remanded.

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