Baker v. Kamantowsky
Michigan Supreme Court
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…
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