Steinhardt v. Bell
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Dallas. Tried before ITon. Joi-in Moore. This was an action of trover, brought by Mrs. Mary Bell, against Adolph and Simon Steinhardt, to recover damages for the conversion of two bales of cotton; and was commenced on March 8th, 1883. Issue was joined on the plea of not guilty ; the trial resulting in a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Dallas. Tried before ITon. Joi-in Moore. This was an action of trover, brought by Mrs. Mary Bell, against Adolph and Simon Steinhardt, to recover damages for the conversion of two bales of cotton; and was commenced on March 8th, 1883. Issue was joined on the plea of not guilty ; the trial resulting in a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The facts in the case, up to the development of the issue of ratification, the material question raised on the trial in the primary court, are stated in the opinion. The plaintiff, as a witness in her own behalf,…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, C. J.
-The testimony all agrees in proof of the following state of facts : That Mrs. Mary Bell let her plantation to Stanton Olds, by rent contract, for the year 1880, at the agreed price of three hundred dollars; that Olds sub-let apart of the land to Moore, and that both Olds and Moore cultivated and produced a cotton crop on the lands during that year; that *211before November of the year Olds paid to Mrs. Bell about two hundred dollars of the rent money, leaving about one hundred dollars unpaid; that in the month of November, Olds delivered at a gin, cotton enough, of the crop which had been so…
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