Kenyon v. Bender

COMBS, Justice.

By this suit appellants as plaintiffs seek damages for the conversion of a dragline, or ditching machine. Two of the defendants, Simon Bender and J. Feldman, junk dealers, wrongfully cut up into junk metal a valuable dragline machine belonging to appellants. At least a large part of the metal derived from said machine was shipped from Vinton, Louisiana, where the machine was cut up, to Beaumont and sold to appellees, J. L. Eisen, M. Sampson, and B. Sampson, doing business as Sampson Iron & Supply Company, a partnership. Eisen and the Sampsons were made parties defendant on…