Case ID: mass_14/html/0427-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Cushing, C. J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

* Dench versus Walker.
    Trover for four hogsheads of rum. On the trial, the evidence appeared thus: Walker undertook to transport from Boston to Springfield the four hogsheads of rum for the plaintiff. At the time of the delivery to Walker, the rum was good; but on its arrival at Springfield, it was much adulterated and greatly lessened in value ; and whether it „was thus adulterated by the defendant himself, or by his servant the teamster, did not appear. It was objected that trover did not lie in this case.
   But

Cushing, C. J.,

with the rest of the Court, held that it will

lie. For the alteration of the quality of the liquor undertaken to be transported, whether it was done by the defendant or his servant, was an unlawful conversion. — Vide Holt, 528. 
      
      
         [Commonwealth vs. James, 1 Pick 375.—Ed.]