Baldwin v. Doe
Baldwin v. Doe
Opinion of the Court
The jury have found, in answer to certain questions proposed at the instance of the counsel for the defendants, that the debtor, at the time of the disclosure, possessed, or had under his control, bank notes, bills, accounts, bonds or other property, not exempt from attachment, and which could not be come at to be attached, and that upon such property being so disclosed by the debtor, the creditor and such debtor did not agree to apply the same in part or in full discharge of the debt, and that the creditor did not waive an appraisal of such property.
The instructions given, and those refused, relate entirely to
If the money was not paid to the justices, but remained the property of the debtor, then, as by the facts found by the jury there was a forfeiture of the bond, the money should be included in the sum found by the jury, as damages. The law is well settled that, to prevent a forfeiture, the property disclosed, so far as it is embraced by R. S., c. 148, § 29, should have been appraised. Harding v. Buller, 21 Maine, 191; Fessenden v. Chesley, 29 Maine, 368.
In either event, therefore, the plaintiff is entitled to judgment. Exceptions overruled. Judgment on the verdict.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- Baldwin versus Doe & al.
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