Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1919-07-18
$4,000 ACTION In
TR0VER BROUGHT
Suit Against Knapp and Taylor
for Value of Cars
Were Attached in Barney Mead Suit
Purpose Of Action to Satisfy Judg-
ment Against Mead.

Knapp and Linn ID. Taylor of Brattle
boro by Constable Bert A. Whittemor'
of Guilford. This is set up in the wri
ms the value of four Chalmers automo
bles which were attached by Clifford
f.. Mann. at that time sheriff of the
county, in the case of Frank l.. Well
man, administrator of the estate of tho
late Mrs. Kate Stone of Brattleboro
against Barney T.. Mead. The suit is
rcturnable at the September term OF
the Windham county court and it is
brought through the law Office of Bar
Der, Barber & Miller.
Mr.. Mead formerly conducted a gar
age here under the name of the Yer
mont Auto Sales corporation and Mr.
TAYLOR was financial hacker Mr.
Knapp is constable. Following the
death of Mrs. Stone, who was injured
on the way here from Springfield, Mass,
while passenger in one of the Vermont
Auto Sales corporation s cars, driven
bv Mr.. Mead, Mr.. Wellman brought
suit 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 judg-
mcnt of the lower court. the judgment,
interest and costs amounting to about
$4,000.
Meanwhile Mr.. Wcllman. 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's efforts to locate the cars
is told in his return to the clerk of the
county court, which is as follows:
"Upon diligent search throughout
my precinct I cannot find either the
goods, chattels or estate of the within
named Barney f. Mead nor his body
whereon to make service of this writ
as required therein.
81 thereupon repaired to the last
and usual place of abode of Clifford
+. Mann, the officer who served the writ
in said cause. who attached thereon as
the property of the within named Bar.
ney f. Mead by taking possession there.
of the following property: One Grant
Chalmers passenger automobile No.
72,70S; one Chalmers passenger auto
mobile, No. 72,713; one Chalmers road
stcr automobile No. 72,252 ATTACHED
under No. 9,19O; one Maxwell taxi |
cab automobile No. 59,440.
Upon diligent search at the last
named place of abode of the said Cliff
ford f. Mann and throughout my pre-
cinct | cannot find said Mann, nor can
| find said cars attached upon said writ
by him.
CT thereupon repaired to Mosher S
garage in which said cars were stored
for safe keeping by said Clifford f.
Mann while in his possession as afore-
said and demanded that said cars DO
turned over to me by virtue of THU writ
of execution; but the persons in charge
of said garage deTv that said cars were
in said garage or in their possession or
control and refused to turn the same
out for levy under this execution, and
aver that said cars had been taken from
said garage against the will and protest
of X. +. Mosher the owner thereof by
one c. |. Knapp. n constable within and
for the town of BrattlebOro and upon
dilgcnt search throughout said garage
! cannot find said cars.
sJ thereupon repaired TO the place of
business of the said C. I. Knapp on
Main street in said Rrattleboro and
there demanded of the said Knapp that
he turn said cars over TO me bv virtue
of this writ of execution but said G. 7.
Knapn denied that said cars wore in
his nossession or control and refused
and neglected to trrn tbc same out, for
levy undcr tbis oxccution. but avcrrcd
that he had delivered TO one Waldo
Ronillord of IIirydaIo in tbc county of
Cheshire and S,ota Of Now Uampshire
thc Grant roadster No 1o.956 and that
he had Delivered the otb~r fonr cars 10
one Linn y TAYLOR of said Brnt,loboro,
and mon diliocnt sonrch | cannot find
said ears nYHn ,bo rrcmi.cs Of or in
thc control or uosse. s'on of the said
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ster ontomobile No 10 956 nor can T
find tbe said Waldo Ronillard for The
nurposo of maxine demand unon him
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