Heyland v. Badger

By the Court, Sawyer, C. J.:

This is an action in the nature of an action of trover at common law, to recover the value of a quantity of hay claimed to have been wrongfully converted by defendant. Plaintiff, in July, 1863, stored some sixty-two tons of hay in defendant’s warehouse, and from time to time, while the Hay was thus stored, obtained money from the defendant to the amount of six hundred dollars, for which he gave his obligation in writing, payable in coin, with two per cent per month interest, when the hay should be delivered out of the warehouse. Subsequently, in September,…