Case ID: dc_1/html/0607-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ball v. Patterson.
    A declaration in trover for “ a tool-chest containing divers tools, and working utensils,” and a “ trunk containing clothes,” is sufficiently certain.
    The declaration having been amended, and a verdict rendered for the plaintiff, the defendant moved in arrest of judgment for uncertainty of the declaration, which was for “ a tool-chest containing divers tools and working utensils,” and “ a trunk containing clothes.”
    
      Mr. Caldwell, for the defendant.
    A chest of tools would have been good; but a chest containing divers tools and working utensils, is not. It is too vague. Bottomly v. Harrison, 2 Str. 809.
   The Court

was of opinion that the declaration was good as to the trunk and chest, and tools and clothes.

Judgment for the plaintiff.