Dow v. Berry

The bill in this case alleges, in brief, that in August, 1877, the defendant Berry was the agent of complainants, who were manufacturers of threshing-machines in the state of New York, and as such agent held in trust one threshing-machine of the value of $650; that Berry, intending to defraud the complainants, and in violation of his trust, transferred the machine to the defendant Wallace, who at the time knew the same to be the property of complainants; that Wallace and the defendants Greverns and Lawson, who also knew that the original ownership of the machine was not in Berry, conspiring…