Case Name: Ball v. Patterson
Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1809-12
Citations: 1 Cranch 607
Docket Number: 
Parties: Ball v. Patterson.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 1
Pages: 607–607

Head Matter:
Ball v. Patterson.
A declaration in trover for “ a tool-chest containing divers tools, and working utensils,” and a “ trunk containing clothes,” is sufficiently certain.
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. Bottomly v. Harrison, 2 Str. 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.