 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - Torts - 1876 - 832 pages
...water that would fit the socket would be worth, and the Chief Justice directed the jury, that unless the defendant did produce the jewel, and show it not...best jewels the measure of their damages, which they did "(c). text tend in any considerable degree 'o harmonize the conflicting decisions, and furnish... | |
 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - Torts - 1876 - 874 pages
...water that would fit the socket would be worth, and the Chief Justice directed the jury, that unless the defendant did produce the jewel, and show it not...best jewels the measure of their damages, which they did." (c) Where goods of the plaintiff had been deposited in the hands of the defendant for manufacturing... | |
 | Nova Scotia. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1881 - 614 pages
...Justice directed the jury that unless defendant produced the jewel, and showed it not to be of the first water, they should presume the strongest against him, and make the value of the best jewels thp measure of their damages. Lord Mansfield, in Fisher v. Prince, 3 Burr., 1363, recognized the principle... | |
 | Edmund B. Ivatts - Carriers - 1883 - 1168 pages
...in respect to the measure of damages, Sir John Pratt, Chief Justice, directed the Jury that unless the Defendant did produce the jewel, and show it not...the measure of their damages, which they accordingly did. In Mercer v. Jones (isis) Lord Ellenborough said — " In trover the rule is that the Plaintiff... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 1150 pages
...action of trover, In proving the value, 'the Chief Ju'stite (Pratt) directed the Jury that, unless the defendant did produce the Jewel and show It not...the measure of their damages, which they accordingly did.' " Mr. Wigmore then cites an unanswerable array of authorities to support the principle announced.... | |
 | Sydney Hastings - Torts - 1885 - 532 pages
...directed the jury, after receiving evidence as to the value of a jewel of the finest water, that unless the defendant did produce the jewel and show it not...and make the value of the best jewels the measure of damages, which they accordingly did(t). Nominal ju some instances, though there is proof of a conversion,... | |
 | Law - 1886 - 942 pages
...authority than that laid down in Armory v. Ddamirie, 1 Smith, Lead. Cas. 679, which was "that unless the defendant did produce the jewel, and show it not to be of finest water," the jury "should presume the strongest against him, and make the value of the best jewels... | |
 | Robert Stewart Morrison - Mining law - 1886 - 772 pages
...water that would fit the socket would be worth; and the chief justice directed the jury, that unless the defendant did produce the jewel and show it not...the measure of their damages, which they accordingly did. 1 Mead v. Hanwid, 9 MR C72. ATTERSOLL v. STEVENS. 67 ATTERSOLL v. STEVENS. (1 Taunton, 183. Common... | |
 | John Chipman Gray - Personal property - 1888 - 936 pages
...water that would fit the socket would be worth ; and the Chief Justice directed the jury, that unless the defendant did produce the jewel, and show it not...measure of their damages ; which they accordingly did. • «£~*. *f 7-etf i BRIDGES v. HAWKESWORTH. Tey ,^0 -ti««£fc-_ej £^L QUEEN'S BENCH. 1851.... | |
 | Frederick Pollock, Robert Samuel Wright - Possession (Law) - 1888 - 310 pages
...water that would fit the socket would be worth ; and the Chief Justice directed the jury, that unless the defendant did produce the jewel, and show it not...measure of their damages : which they accordingly did.' 1740. AVoadson v, Nawton, 2 Strange, 777. 'Trespass for taking and dispersing a load of fern... | |
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... that unless the defendant did produce the jewel, and show it not to be of the finest water, they should presume the strongest against him, and make the value of the best jewels the measure of their damages ; which they accordingly did. 
