Jones v. Southern Ry. Co.

KING, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs in error were plaintiffs, in the trial court, in three several suits, which had been consolidated for trial, and were thereafter consolidated for review by writ of error, wherein they sought to recover certain quantities of steel rail, with their fastenings, which plaintiffs asserted were their property, and of which the defendant Southern Railway Company was in possession. Said possession was alleged to have been unlawfully taken in the-year 1917. A demand on the Southern Railway Company for said property, and its refusal to comp'ly, were also alleged.

The…