Bondi Bros. v. Holbrook Grocery Co.

This is an action of tort for the conversion of a carload of potatoes. The case was tried by court, facts were found, and judgment thereon was rendered for the plaintiffs.

*161The court, in substance, has found that about the middle of January, 1917, E. H. Grice of Richford, Vermont, bought of the New Brunswick Potato Exchange, Limited, four carloads of potatoes, one of which is the carload in question, for which a part payment of one hundred dollars was made on each carload. On January 29, 1917, Grice telegraphed the defendant, to whom he had previously sold potatoes, offering to sell it those…