Legal Opinion

Baker v. Kamantowsky

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided December 21, 1915No. Docket No. 63PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Error to Kent; Connine, J., presiding. Trover by Volney Baker against Joseph Kamantowski for conversion of a quantity of pork. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant brings error.

1Opinion of the CourtBird, J.

Plaintiff, a farmer, Contracted in the fall of 1913 to sell his dressed pork for 10 cents per pound to one Katz, a retail meat dealer in the city of Grand Rapids. A few days after Thanksgiving he killed the hogs, and on the following day delivered them to Katz; but he refused to accept them by reason of the fact that some of them had begun to sour. Plaintiff thereupon placed the pork in the refrigerator of Swift & Co., who were wholesale meat dealers. The understanding under which they were left there is in dispute. Plaintiff returned in a few days thereafter, and found that the hogs had been…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Hoover v. PetersMichigan Supreme Court · 1869
  2. Copas v. Anglo-American Provision Co.Michigan Supreme Court · 1889

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Salzman v. MaldaverMichigan Supreme Court · 1946
  2. Amos v. Walter N. Kelley Co.Michigan Supreme Court · 1927
  3. Zielinski v. PotterMichigan Supreme Court · 1917
  4. E. P. Stacy & Sons v. MoherMichigan Supreme Court · 1918
  5. Gillette v. Kelling Nut Co.Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1950

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