Richardson v. Scroggham

Plaintiff-appellee commenced this action by filing his complaint in two legal paragraphs for damages for the conversion of personal property. Each paragraph prayed compensatory damages and also an additional sum for punitive damages. These allegations of each legal paragraph of the complaint were denied by defendant-appellant’s answer thereto.

Plaintiff-appellee’s mother married Jacob Richardson, father of defendant-appellant, and was married to him about five years before his death. A part of their married life was spent on the senior Richardson’s farm but before he died it was necessary to…