Case ID: nh_62/html/0003-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Doe, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Stone v. Sleeper.
    Personal property in the possession of a bailee, under an agreement that it shall he his when paid for, does not become his in violation of the agreement.
    Trover. Facts found by a referee. The plaintiff’s goods were in the possession of Pomfret, under an agreement that they should be his when he paid for them. Without paying for them, Pom-fret absconded, and gave a bill of sale of all his “ claim, right, and title to ” them to Carpenter, one of his creditors, who had notice of the plaintiff’s claim. Carpenter sold the goods to the defendant.
    
      Pike $ Parsons, for the plaintiff.
    
      B. B. S. Sanborn, for the defendant
   Doe, C. J.

The plaintiff is entitled to judgment. Holt v. Holt, 58 N. H. 276; Weeks v. Pike, 60 N. H. 447; Luther v. Cote, 61 N. H. 129; Gould v. Blodgett, 61 N. H. 115.

Case discharged.

Stanley, J., did not sit: the others concurred.