Woodcock v. Carlson
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by plaintiffs from a judgment on the pleadings, entered in the district court for Goodhue county, pursuant to an order of Mc-Cluer, J.
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
We think it was error to order judgment for defendant on the pleadings, although it is not surprising that the court below should have been somewhat confused by the mass of immaterial history, or, at best, mere evidence, by which counsel have extended the pleadings, in a simple action of trover and conversion, to the length of nearly 60 folios. The action is for damages for the wrongful taking and conversion of a number of sacks of grain, which the plaintiffs claim by virtue of a chattel mortgage executed by one Puryea, in June, 1886, while the property was still a growing crop. The wrongful…
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