Baker v. Belle-Chasse Land Co.

*33CHARLES BAKER VS BELLE-CHASSE LAND CO.

No. 7832

Appeal from Civil District Court, Hon. Fred D. King, Judge.

CHARLES F. CLAIBORNE, JUDGE.

This is a damage suit for an alleged conversion of property. The facts are as follows:

On June 28th, 1917, the defendant company sold to Goldstein a lot of scrap iron or junk lying on its plantation in Plaquemine Parish, for the price of $200 cash. On July 23d, 1917-, Goldstein sold the same to Richmond for a price apparently of $195, Richmond sold 18 tons of this junk a short time after for $19 a ton, and on September 18th, 1917, he testified he sold the…