Boil v. Simms

In this action, the appellants, as plaintiffs, sued the appellee, as defendant, in the court below.

The appellants’ complaint was in three paragraphs.

In the first paragraph the appellants, Lewis V. Boil, Milton L. Cox and Franklin Landers, traders in lumber, doing business in the name and style of Boil, Cox & Co., alleged, that, at Clinton county, Indiana, on the — day of April, 1874, the appellee, without leave and wrongfully, ¡took from the appellants the following property, to wit: •forty thousand feet of black walnut lumber, of the value of two thousand dollars, and had not since returned,…