Stewart County v. Holloway

Stewart County brought an action of trover against Paul Holloway to recover certain bridge steel alleged to be its property. The defendant admitted refusal to deliver the property on demand, setting up that he did not claim the property in his own right but that he was holding it as custodian for the State Highway Department and denied that the plaintiff had any title thereto. The case was submitted to the trial judge, without the intervention of a jury, on the following agreed statement of facts: “In October, 1915, Stewart County caused to be erected a bridge of steel construction spanning…