McDearmid v. John R. Foster & Co.

The respondent commenced an action in the court below against the appellants, to recover the possession of two hundred and six sacks of wheat, containing about four hundred and twenty-five bushels, marked “ J. R. F. & Co. P.,” *418alleged to have been wrongfully taken and detained from him, and in which he had a special property to the extent of one hundred and six dollars, which was less than the value of the wheat so taken. He also claimed twenty dollars as damages for the taking and detention of the said wheat. The appellants denied all the material allegations of the complaint, and set forth…