Legal Opinion
Camp v. Unger
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided April 30, 1894PublishedCited by 2 opinions
Memorandum.—Trover. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Edward F. Dunne, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gary
The appellee was the wife of Dr. Unger, against whom the appellant Camp had a justice’s execution, which the appellant Stephens, as constable, executed, by levying upon a phaeton and selling it to Camp as the best bidder.
The appellee claims that she furnished to her husband the money with which he bought the phaeton for her, and she sued the appellants in trover.
The acts of the appellants were a conversion by both, if the property was hers. Follet v. Edwards, 30 Ill. App. 386.
Mo demand for the property was necessary after an actual conversion. Hayes v. Mass. Life, 125 Ill. 626.
If the livery…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Hayes v. Massachusetts Mutual Life InsuranceIllinois Supreme Court · 1888
- Follett v. EdwardsAppellate Court of Illinois · 1889
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