Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1860

Sherman v. Matthews

Sherman v. Matthews
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided September 15, 1860
81 Mass. 508

Sherman v. Matthews

Opinion of the Court

By the Court.

A person who has a paper given him by the owner of a horse, intended as a mortgage' of the horse, but which by a clerical error is defective, and who has also a verbal license from the owner to take the horse under the supposed mortgage, is not answerable in tort, for taking the horse, to the person in whose possession the horse was found, but who had no right to the possession. Exceptions sustained.

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