Sprenger v. First State Bank

CheistxaNsoN, Ch..J.

Plaintiff brought this action to recover damages for the alleged conversion of two certain warrants executed by the Hail Insurance Department of North Dakota, in payment of a loss by hail sustained by the plaintiff, Sprenger, in 1923. The aggregate amount of both warrants is $1,241. The case was tried to a jury; but after some twenty hours’ deliberation the jury reported their inability to agree upon a verdict and the trial court thereupon granted a motion formerly made, and directed a verdict in favor of the defendants and against the plaintiff for a dismissal of the…