Best Manufacturing Co. v. Cohn

This is an action in trover for the conversion by defendant of a gas engine and its attachments and for the recovery of the value of the same.

The action was tried before the court without a jury upon an agreed statement of facts and other evidence, and the court gave judgment in favor of plaintiff for the sum of $1,400, the value of the engine, and $50 expenses. The find ings show that one B. B. Bullock, who was the superintendent of the Prosperity Mining Company, procured of plaintiff one forty horse-power crude-oil engine, together with the fixtures thereof, consisting, of one sparking…