Van Valkenburg v. Rogers
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Bay Circuit. This was an action of trover brought to recover damages for an alleged conversion of special property in the steam-tug Union. Upon the trial, the plaintiff offered in evidence certain letters and telegrams, of which the following are material portions: “Bat City, February 86, 1866. Messrs. D. A. Van Varkenbtjrg & Son : G-ents — I wish to know if you would charter your tug Union for the coming season.
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Error to Bay Circuit. This was an action of trover brought to recover damages for an alleged conversion of special property in the steam-tug Union. Upon the trial, the plaintiff offered in evidence certain letters and telegrams, of which the following are material portions: “Bat City, February 86, 1866. Messrs. D. A. Van Varkenbtjrg & Son : G-ents — I wish to know if you would charter your tug Union for the coming season. I would fit her out well and pay for such outfit and pay you two thousand dollars for such charter, as follows: Five hundred dollars on the first of June,*1866, five hundred…
1Opinion of the Court
Graves J.
Rogers, the intestate, brought trover to recover damages, on the ground of an alleged conversion, by the plaintiffs in error, of what he claimed to be his special property in a steam tug called the Union.
It appears that in the winter and spring of 1866, Rogers was residing at Bay City, in this state, and that Van Valkenburg resided at Lockport in the state of New York. That the Union being at or near Bay City, and the property of Van Valkenburg, Rogers, in February of that year, opened a correspondence with Van Valkenburg, in order to charter the Union for the season, to run in…
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