Stevens v. Springer
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from Barton Circuit Court, Hon. Charles Gr. Burton, Judge. Statement of case by tbe court. This was an action for tbe conversion of tbe following personal property: “One fifteen-ball Brunswick pool table and sixteen pool balls, one Brunswick billiard table and twenty-two cues, and four billiard balls, one ice chest, one bar aud counter, glassware, fixtures and bottles, and tw.o chandeliers, one hanging lamp, four bracket lamps, one mirror, seven pictures, nine chairs,…
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Appeal from Barton Circuit Court, Hon. Charles Gr. Burton, Judge. Statement of case by tbe court. This was an action for tbe conversion of tbe following personal property: “One fifteen-ball Brunswick pool table and sixteen pool balls, one Brunswick billiard table and twenty-two cues, and four billiard balls, one ice chest, one bar aud counter, glassware, fixtures and bottles, and tw.o chandeliers, one hanging lamp, four bracket lamps, one mirror, seven pictures, nine chairs, two bar or movable lamps undone clock.” The defendant, Springer, seized the property as that of one Norris under an…
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
The court held that the plaintiff was not precluded from bringing this action because he made *381claim to the property and his claim was tried and disposed of in the manner provided by the statute; that the plaintiff was not for said reasons 'confined to his remedy on the idemnifying bond given by the execution creditor.'
The court also held that the judgment of the circuit court upon the question of the plaintiff ’ s ownership of the property was, as to such question, res adjudicates upon both the defendants in this suit.
The court held that evidence of what the property sold for at the sheriff ’…
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