Harrison v. Baker

The pleadings and testimony in this case are quite voluminous, but having reached the conclusion that there must be :a new trial on account of error in the reception of certain objectionable testimony offered by the defendants in error, and the giving of certain improper instructions to the jury, we will confine ourselves to so much of the record as may be necessary to the presentation of those points.

The plaintiffs below, as the assignees of James 8. Marsh, •claimed the ownership of a large number of reaping ma*44chines, which were in a shed or warehouse owned by Oliver Townsend, at Beatrice,…