Case Name: Stone v. Sleeper
Court: New Hampshire Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Hampshire
Decision Date: 1882-06
Citations: 62 N.H. 3
Docket Number: 
Parties: Stone v. Sleeper.
Judges: Stanley, J., did not sit: the others concurred.
Reporter: New Hampshire Reports
Volume: 62
Pages: 3–3

Head Matter:
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

Opinion:
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.