Ernest Wolff Manufacturing Co. v. Battreal Shoe Co.

JOHNSON, J. —

This is an action to recover damages for the alleged wrongful conversion of certain merchandise taken from the possession of plaintiff under levy of a writ of attachment issued in aid of an action brought by defendant Battreal Shoe Company against George L. Keller. The petition alleges that on the date of the levy, January 1, 191.2, plaintiff “was the owner of and in possession of the goods (describing them) of the value of $1100,” and that as such owner “it shipped same from Orrick, Missouri, to it*115self in Kansas City, Missouri, in care of the Wells-Fargo Express Company on…