50 Vt. 431 | Vt. | 1878
The opinion of the court was delivered by
The first exception is in regard to the correctness of the charge in respect to change of possession.
The court, in substance, charged the jury, that if the sale of the pans from the plaintiff’s father was made in good faith and without any purpose to defraud his father’s creditors, and if the father, agreeably to and in compliance with the terms of the sale, did, when he was through using the pans that season, put them into the unoccupied house of Porter for the plaintiff, in the place of the sleds, which the plaintiff had stored there with the assent and permission of Porter, and did take the sleds away as his own, — the sleds being exchanged in part payment for the pans— it would constitute a sufficient change of possession to protect the pans from attachment on the father’s debts. The unoccupied house was on premises the title to which was in Porter and his wife, and occupied by them, and not occupied or under the control of the plaintiff’s father.
In Bailey v. Quint, 22 Vt. 474, it was held that the removal by the vendor and vendee, of boards from the mill-yard to the mill shed, with the permission of the owner of the shed, obtained by the vendee, but without notice to the owner of the shed of the sale, constituted.a sufficient change of possession to protect them from attachment as the property of the vendor. The case is cited
Neither do we find any error in the charge in respect to the testimony of Guy Woodard. The court left the consideration and weighing of his testimony fully to the jury. An expression of an opinion by the court in regard to the character and weight to be given to testimony, if the full consideration of the same is submitted to the jury, is not error. Missisquoi Bank v. Evarts, 45 Vt. 293; Stevens v. Talcott, 11 Vt. 25; Gale v. Lincoln, 11 Vt. 152. But the court, in the case at bar, simply called the at
Judgment affirmed.