Collier v. Jenks

This is an exception to the decision of the District Court of the Sixth Judicial District in an action of trespass de bonis asportatis for breaking and entering the plaintiff’s close and taking and carrying away and converting to the defendant’s use a quantity of manure. It was admitted at the trial that the manure, amounting to about nine cords, was made on the farm of the defendant’s wife; that it had been hauled out of the barn yard and piled on a lot containing about seven-eighths of an acre which, subsequently,- on December 23, 1893, was conveyed by the defendant and his wife to the…