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Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Brewster v. Town of Norwich.
    The property of goods is vested in the defendant hy the plaintiff’s recovering pay of him for them — and an action of book-debt will lie for them.
    ActioN of debt on book. Plea owe nothing. Issue to the jury- _ ' ;
    _ The jury found that the plaintiff had in his hands four barrels of beef, the property of the defendants, for which he gave his receipt; that in A. D. 1184, he delivered said beef to the defendants’ order, but did not take up his receipt; that the defendants brought a special action of the case upon said receipt, and recovered for said beef, and refer the question of law upon the facts aforesaid, to- the court, whether the defendants are indebted to the plaintiff for said beef, and whether it may be recovered in this action.
   'The court is of opinion — That the law is so upon the facts aforesaid, that said beef is chargeable on book, and recoverable in this action; the defendants having recovered on the receipt pay for said beef, the property thereby was vested in the plaintiff; and they having received it by delivery of the plaintiff, are justly indebted for it.