Raithel v. Dezetter
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to Cole Circuit Court. I. There was no want of demand pleaded, and hence the defendant could not avail himself of any such defense at the trial. (R. C. 1855, p. 448, § 84; Gen. Stat. 1865, p. 691, S 34; 30 Mo. 252; 39 Mo. 383.)
1Opinion of the Court
Bliss, Judge,
delivered the opinion of the court.'
The plaintiff brings an action in the Cole County Circuit Court, for conversion of personal property, principally farm implements, in the nature of an action of trover. Defendant denies the taking and conversion. The evidence shows that the plaintiff sold defendant a farm, reserving in writing the use of half the smoke-house. When he left the farm he. placed the property for which he sues in the smoke-house, and locked it. The'defendant, *146about a month after, desirous of smoking his meat, removed the property and placed' it in another building…
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