Ingersoll-Rand Co. v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.

The opinion of tlie court was delivered by

Trenchard, J.

The Ingersoll-Rand Company, the plaintiff below, sued to recover the value of certain machinery which it claimed was its property and was wrongly converted by the defendant to its use.

The record disclosed the following situation: Prondergasi & Clarkson had a contract with the United States government for the building of the Shoshone dam at Cody, Wyoming. *404They needed certain machinery for use in this work. The plaintiff, in writing, proposed to furnish them an IngersollRand air compressor “of the size and dimensions as set forth in the…