Stanley v. Neale
Cases that cite this one
3 later published cases cite this decision.
- Commercial Credit Corp. v. Flowers (Mass. 1933)
- Field v. Fletcher (Mass. 1906)
- Baker v. Seavey (Mass. 1895)
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Opinion of the Court
The plaintiff excepts to no finding or decision of the judge except his order for a return. But it had been found that the plaintiff had no title to the property replevied; that the title was in Selden, and that the defendant Neale was his agent. Upon the finding of these facts, the order was correct. For a plaintiff in replevin must maintain his case on the strength of his own title, and, if he fails, the' possession ought, as a general rule, to be restored to the defendant. Johnson v. Neale, 6 Allen, 229. This case does not furnish an exception to the rule, but comes c’early within it
Exceptions overruled.
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