California Cured Fruit Ass'n v. Ainsworth

HARRISON, J.—

Action in trover for the conversion of ten. tons of prunes, alleged to be of the value of seven hundred dollars.

The plaintiff bases its right of recovery upon a certain contract between it and the defendant Ainsworth, by the terms of which Ainsworth, who was the owner of a tract of land, upon which the prunes were then growing, “ sold and transferred to plaintiff an undivided interest, equal to two per cent, in his interest or ownership in or to said prunes, and agreed to cultivate and care for said prunes, at his own expense, and to cure the same to the satisfaction of…