Grant v. Sheerin

Belcher, C. C.

This is an action for an accounting, and to recover money alleged to be due the plaintiff.

The complaint alleges that one John Grant, the plaintiff’s testator, was the owner of a certain marble monument of great value, and that, for the purpose of effecting a sale thereof, he placed the monument in the possession of the defendant, with authority to sell it; that defendant accepted the monument for and on account of said Grant, and took and held the same until some time in May, 1885, when, under the authority so given, he sold it, as plaintiff is informed and believes, for the sum…