Johnson v. Ballou

This is a writ of error to the circuit court for tbe county of Bay. The action was trover by the plaixitiff in error, for the alleged conversion of a large quantity of pine logs.

The case raises several questions of some difficulty and importance, but, as tbe submission lxas been upon briefs, and the record is obscure, if not contradictory, and there is another point on which we think the judgment should be reversed, tbe court will confine its opinion to that, on which no doubt is entertained. When tbe evidence was closed, the circuit judge, in addressing the jury, proceeded in the *461first…