Dietrich v. Hoefelmeir

This is an action of trover brought to recover the value of 40 sheep claimed to have been converted by the defendant to his own use on the 6th day of January, 1900. The declaration was in the usual form of declarations in trover. The plea was the general issue, with notice of a contract between the parties by which the defendant took 20 sheep from the plaintiffs, to double in four years from the 6th day of January, 1896, and also *146a notice of tender. Some time in the month of December, 1895, one of the plaintiffs met the defendant at his place of business in Ravenna, when the defendant wanted…