Hickman v. Aldridge

This is a suit by Jesse S. Aldridge against Roy Hickman and wife for damages for the conversion of a piano, with an alternative claim for the “title and possession of said piano, with damages for all injuries to said piano, and for the detention and withholding the same from the plaintiff, together with damages on account of the depreciation of the market value thereof by reason (of the) said withholding thereof from plaintiff.” The pleading further alleged as a part of such alternative claim that the piano had been damaged in shipment from Fort Worth, Tex., to Rising Star, and in moving the…