Fells v Read
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Court | High Court of Chancery |
| Judgment Date | 07 March 1796 |
| Date | 07 March 1796 |
English Reports Citation: 30 E.R. 899
HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY
3VB8. JITN. 71. FELLS V. READ 899 fells v. read. March 1th, 1796. The Court will decree a specific chattel to be delivered up without measuring the value, where from its nature there can be no compensation by damages. In this instance the Defendant retained possession after the expiration of a limited time, for which he had received it upon a special trust and an express engagement to restore; and an action, which had been brought, was rendered ineffectual by the release of two of the owners, combining with the Defendant. The Plaintiffs were members of a club, called " The Past Overseers of St. Margaret's " Parish, Westminster," which consisted of persons, who had served the office of Overseer of the poor of that parish. This society had been for a long period in possession of a silver tobacco-box inclosed in two large silver cases, all which were adorned with several engravings of public transactions and heads of distinguished persons. The date of the box did not appear in the cause : but the ornaments, which had been added by different overseers during the time the box and cases remained in their custody, began in the year 1713. This box and the cases were always kept by the overseer for the time being; who upon coming into office received them from the churchwarden with a particular charge, in which he was injoined, under a penalty, to produce them at all meetings of the society, and to deliver them up on going out of office to the senior churchwarden, to be by him delivered to the succeeding overseer. They were delivered in the usual form to the Defendant Read, on his coming into office as overseer. On going out of office he refused to deliver them...
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