7 Blackf. 361 | Ind. | 1845
— Trover by Gould against Redman and Clark. The defendants pleaded severally not guilty. There were also two special pleas which were demurred to, and the demurrers sustained. No error is complained of in the judgment upon the demurrers. The general issues were tried by a jury. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff.
During the trial, the defendants offered to read to the jury the transcript of a record of the District Court of the United States fox the District of Missouri, which was objected to by the plaintiff and the objection sustained. By the transcript offered in evidence, it appeared that Gould, the plaintiff in the suit, had been declared a bankrupt on the 13th day of June, 1842, by the District Court of Missouri, and that one V. M. Gaseche was, on the same day, duly appointed his assignee. The transcript was under the seal- of the Court, attested by the clerk, and accompanied by a certificate of the district judge that the attestation was in due form.
It was proved by the plaintiff that, in the month of June, 1842, the defendant, Clark, took from the house in which the plaintiff’s wife and two children were residing, during the ab-
— The judgment is reversed with costs. Cause remanded, &c.