Parish v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Florida. Action at law by the United States against W. L. Parish and the Consolidated Naval Stores Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
McCORMICK, Circuit Judge.
This was an action by the United States, plaintiff, against W. L. Parish and the Consolidated Naval Stores Company, a corporation, defendants. The declaration charged, in the first count, that the defendants had converted to their own use and deprived plaintiff of the use, possession, and value of plaintiff’s goods and! chattels — that is to say, turpentine and rosin — to the value of $455. The second count is to the same effect, except it describes the goods as crude gum, the product of pine trees, of the value, etc.; and the third count charges that the defendants…
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