Du Pont v. Beck

The appellants sued the appellees upon a promissory note, alleging that the plaintiffs had consigned goods to the defendants to sell for the plaintiffs, the proceeds of sales to be held by the defendants in trust for and to be paid over to the plaintiffs, less the commission due the defendants for selling; and that on the 23d day of April, 1878, the defendants had in their hands, belonging to the plaintiffs, $2,898, which they had unlawfully and fraudulently converted to their own use, and upon demand refused to pay plaintiffs; and, as an evidence of the indebtedness, executed to the…