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75 Mass. 221

Marble v. Keyes

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided October 15, 1857

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1857-10-15

Action of tort against the sheriff of Middlesex for the conversion of a wagon and harness, attached by one of his deputies upon a writ against Bailey Marble. Writ dated February 9th 1854.

Decided 1857-10-15

By the Court.

¶1The rejection of the evidence offered by the plaintiff after he had rested his case was within the discretion of the presiding judge, and not a- subject of exception. Whatever might have been the position of the plaintiff if he had continued to stand as he did at the time of the trial, we are of opinion that he cannot now prosecute these exceptions. Since this case was given to the jury, a verdict has been returned for the plaintiff in the first case, and he has obtained a judgment thereon in the court of common pleas, and an affirmation of that judgment in this court. That judgment is a bar to this action, and the entry in this case must therefore be

¶2Exceptions overruled,

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