Preston v. Moore

In this canse the special chancellor decreed that Moore, while in the employ of complainant Preston as a salesman in the mercantile establishment'of the latter, in violation of the trust and confidence reposed in him and in disregard of his duties as such employee, wrongfully and without knowledge or consent of complainant appropriated to his own use merchandise and money belonging to complainant to the value of $1715.-56; and that out of same defendant purckahed a certain lot and.improved it by erecting thereon a dwelling house, barn, etc. In this finding we concur, after an examination of…