Dowling v. Clark

Decided January 15, 1862

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1862-01-15

Tort by a tailor against a deputy sheriff for the conversion of a sewing machine, by taking and selling the same on an execution against the plaintiff, on the 27th of May 1859.

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently January 1916

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1862-01-15

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Merrick, J.

¶1The instructions to the jury were correct. They embraced all that was asked for in the several prayers of the defendant, which, in reference to the facts proved in the case, were required or proper to be given. Dowling v. Clark, 1 Allen, 283.

¶2Exceptions overruled.