Case Name: BALL v. PATTERSON
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1809-12
Citations: 2 F. Cas. 556
Docket Number: 
Parties: BALL v. PATTERSON.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 2
Pages: 556–556

Head Matter:
Case No. 814.
BALL v. PATTERSON.
[1 Cranch, C. C. 607.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
Dec. Term, 1809.
Troveh—Pleading.
A declaration in trover for “a tool-chest containing divers tools, and working utensils,” and a “trunk containing clothes,” is sufficiently certain.
[See Ball v. Patterson, Case No. 813.]
At law. 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. Bottomley v. Harrison, 2 Strange, 809.

Opinion:
THE COURT
was of opinion that the declaration was good as to the trunk and chest, and tools and clothes. Judgment for the plaintiff.