Curtiss v. Curtiss
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Kent; Perkins, J. Case by James A. Curtiss, as surviving partner of himself and George EL Outhouse, deceased, composing the firm of J. A. Curtiss & Company, against George S. Curtiss, for the wrongful conversion of a cause of action. There was judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomery, J.
This case has once been before the court, and is reported in 134 Mich., at page 220, to which report a reference is made for a fuller statement of facts. Briefly stated, the claim which plaintiff sets forth in his declaration is that having a cause of action against Luther T. Wilcox for damages for conversion of a stock of goods upon which plaintiff and his business partner (since deceased) held a chattel mortgage to secure the payment of an indebtedness of $2,861.27, and having many years ago instituted suit against Wilcox to secure damages for *677the alleged conversion, and having obtained a…
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