Royce, Allen & Co. v. Oakes

This is an action of trespass on the case, in which the plaintiffs set out in the first count of their declaration that on the 15th day of January, 1894, they delivered to the defendant the sum of $1,714.60 in money, together with three gross of napkin rings of the value of $49.26, said money and goods being the property of the plaintiffs, for safe keeping, and to he redelivered by the defendant to the plaintiffs thereafterwards on the same day ; that the defendant received said money and merchandise for the purpose aforesaid, yet, not regarding his duty in that behalf, afterwards on the same…