O'Lein v. Winesburg

Plaintiff brought this action against the defendant, chief of police of the city of Madison, S. D., to recover damages for the alleged conversion of a Ford automobile, plaintiff claiming to be entitled to the possession thereof, and claiming that the defendant hadi ’taken the same from where it was standing upon the streets of the city of Madison, and by an unjustifiable and unreasonable refusal to return it to plaintiff had converted it *10to plaintiff’s damage $350. Issue was joined 'and the action tried to a jury, who returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff for damages in the amount of $65,…