The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-15
$1,000 ACTION IN
TROVER BROUGHT
Suit Against c. /. Knapp and
L. d. Taylor for Value
of Automobiles
WERE ATTACHED IN
BARNEY MEAD SUIT

Purpose of Action to Satisfy Judge
ment Against Mead Because of Death
of Mrs. Kate Stone-Cars Disap-
peared After Attachment.
A suit in trover to recover $1,000 was
brought today against Chanucey /.
Knapp and Linn d. Taylor of Brattle
boro by Constable Bert A. Whittemore
of Guilford. This is set up in the writ
as the value of four Chalmers automo-
biles which were attached by Clifford
E. Mann, at that time sheriff of the
county, in the case of Frank L. Well
man, administrator of the estate of the
late Mrs. Kate Stone of Brattleboro,
against Barney E. Mead. The suit is
returnable at the September term of
the Windham county court and it is
brought through the law Office of Bar
ber, Barber G. Miller.
Mr. Mead formerly conducted gar
age here under the name of the Yer
mont Auto Sales corporation and Mr..
Taylor was a financial backer Mr..
Knapp is a constable. Following the
death of Mrs. Stone, who was injured
on the way here from Springfield, Mass,
while a passenger in one of the Vermont
Auto Sales corporation s ears, driven
by Mr.. Mead, Mr.. Wellman brought
sdit for damages as administrator and
was awarded $4,000 by the county
court.
AT the time the suit was brought an
attachment was placed on the automo-
| biles in question by Sheriff Mann, and
later they disappeared.
| An appeal from the judgment of the
| county court was taken to the supreme
| court, which recently affirmed the iudg-
ment of the lower court. the Judgment,
interest and costs amounting to about
$4,000.
| Meanwhile Mr.. Wellman. the admin
istrator, had become sheriff and Mr..
Mead had gone into business out of the
state. The execution therefore was
| placed in the hands of Constable Whit
temore for service. The story of the
constable 8 efforts to locate the cars
| is told in his return to the clerk of the
| county court, which is as follows:
| Upon diGgent search throughout
my precinct L cannot find either the
| goods, chattels or estate of the within
named Barney E. Mead nor his body
| whereon to make service Of this writ
as required therein.
q thereupon repaired to the last
and usual place of abode of Clifford
+, Mann, the officer who served the writ
III said cause, who attached thereon as
the property of the within named Bar
ney Z. Mead by taking possession there.
of the following property: One Grant
Roadster automobile No. 1886; one
Chalmers passenger automobile No.
72,70S; one Chalmers passenger auto
mobile, No. 72,713; one Chalmers road
ster automobile No. 72,252 (attaehed
under No. 9,197); one Maxwell taxi
cab automobile No. 59,440
Upon diligent search at the last
named place of abode of the said Cliff
ford E. Mann and throughout my pre-
cinct [ cannot find said Mann, nor can
| find said cars attached upon said writ
by him.
Il thereupon repaired to Nosher :
garage IN which said cars were stored
for safe keeping by said Clifford e
Mann while In his possession as afore
said and demanded that said ears bs
turned over to me by virtue of this uri,
of execution; but the persons in charge
7 of said garage deny that said ears were
In said garage or in their possession Of
control and refused to turn the sam.
/ out for levy under this execution. ant
:, aver that said cars had been taken from
, said garage against the will and protes
/ of X. Z. Mosher the owner thereof b,
one c. |. Knapp, constable within ant
!, for the town of Brattleboro, and upol
|, diligent search throughout said garag
$ | cannot find said ears.
81 thereupon repaired to the place o
t business Of the said G. l. Knapp OF
Main street in said Brattleboro an
i there demanded Of the said Knapp tha
;, he turn said ears over to me by virtu
: of this writ of execution but said c..
Knapp denied that said cars were i
his possession or control and refuse
and neglected to turn the same out fo
levy under this execution, but averre
that he had delivered to one Wald
Rouillard of Hinsdale in the county @
Cheshire and State of New Hampshir
the Grant roadster No. 1886 and tina
, he had delivered the other four cars /
one Linn d. Taylor of said Brattlebor,
and upon diligent search I cannot fin
= said cars upon the premises of or
= the control or possession of the sal
s G. /. Knapp.
- "Upon diligent search throughout m
: precinct I cannot find said Grant roa,
ster automobile No. 1886 nor can
= find the said Waldo Rouillard for IL
,r purpose of making demand upon hi
i for said sar.
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