Lilly v. Bronson

C. L. Lilly was a game warden in and for Polk County, Florida. Ed Bronson filed suit in Osceola County against Lilly for damages incident to the alleged trover and conversion by Lilly of a fish net and a boat belonging to Bronson. He alleged in his declaration that the defendant, “without authority of law, then and there, converted to his own use and wrongfully deprived the plaintiff of his' said boat and said seine therein and did then and there fasten the boat of said plaintiff containing the seine therein to his own boat and did then and there haul the same away from Lake Platcheneha down…