Ives v. Tregent

The plaintiffs in error are assignees in bankruptcy of *391Bobert Hosie, and were sued in trover by Tregent for thé conversion of certain shares of stock in the Kellogg bridge company, of Buffalo, N. Y., which he claimed to have purchased of them at a public sale made of the effects of said bankrupt. The suit appears to- have grown out of a misunderstanding, real or pretended, between Tregent and the assignees, regarding the price at which the shares were struck off to him; Tregent claiming that it was eleven cents a share, while Ives, who was present at the sale, insists' that he understood it…