Parsons v. Rice

John A. Rice, sheriff of Missoula county, has appealed from an order granting Harry H. Parsons a new trial in- an action wherein the latter sued for damages for the alleged conversion of a Hudson coach, on the trial of which action verdict was rendered for defendant.

The chronological history of the Harry Parsons coach is as follows: In the year 1926 A. W. Stephenson and W. E. Edwards, Missoula agents for the Hudson and Essex automobiles, were doing business under the firm name of Edwards Motor Company and, apparently, “on a shoestring.” On April 2 Stephenson, who was the business manager of…