Johannesson v. Borschenius

The judge instructed the jury that the only cause of action for the conversion of property, proved or which the evidence tended to prove, was for the taking and detention of the receipt. He charged that the school land certificates, mentioned in the second count of the complaint, were, at the time of the alleged conversion of them by the defendant, the property of the defendant by legal title, and consequently that whatever right the plaintiff might have had in equity to compel a transfer of them, if any, yet the defendant could not be found to have converted them as against the plaintiff. We…