Doty v. Steinberg
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the St. Louis Circuit Court, George W. Ltjbke, Judge. cited: Koeltz v. Blackman, 46 Mo. 320; Smith v. JDekes, 5 Minn. 373 ; Railroad v. Fulney, 17 Gratt. 366; Hodapp v. Sharp, 40 Cal. 69; Sutherland on Damages, 814.
1Opinion of the CourtThompson, J.
This was an action for damages for the conversion of six sea otter skins, claimed in the petition to be “of unusually large size and quality.” The damages claimed in the petition are one thousand eight hundred dollars. The -answer admits that six sea otter skins were delivered by the plaintiff, Mrs. Doty, to the defendant in the year 1877, as charged in her petition, but sets up that they were known as “ sea otter pup skins ”; that they were delivered by the plaintiff to the defendant for the purpose of having the defendant send them to New York to ascertain what they were worth; that be did…
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