Crane Lumber Co. v. Bellows

The plaintiff and defendants were sawmill owners, their respective mills being situate upon opposite shores of Betsie Lake. Both parties obtained logs by floating them down Betsie river to the lake, to a boom, where the logs were separated. The action is trover, it being claimed that the defendants sawed, and thereby converted to their own use, a large number of the plaintiff’s saw-logs. A verdict of 1992 was rendered in plaintiff’s favor. The defendants have taken a writ of error.

It is claimed on the part of the defendants that, if a conversion is shown, it occurred after May 1, 1895, the…