Brown v. Foster
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Emmet; Shepherd, J. Assumpsit by Frank E. Brown and John Sehler, co-partners as Brown & Sehler, against Frank F. Foster, Cornelius Burke, and William H. Coon, copartners as the Harbor Springs Implement Company, to recover the value of chattels converted. From a judgment for defendants, plaintiffs bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
This case was tried by the court with•out a jury. A finding of facts was made, and judgment rendered for defendants. We state such of said facts as are necessary to a disposition of the legal questions involved.
Plaintiffs are copartners engaged in the business of selling machinery at Grand Rapids, Mich. Defendants were ■copartners engaged in selling farm implements at Harbor Springs, Mich., under the firm name of the Harbor Springs Implement Company. Their business was the sale of farm implements, but it did not include the buying and selling of threshing machines, and no such machines were…
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