Rodgers v. a & B Pipe & Supply Co.

TALIAFERRO, Judge.

Plaintiff brings this action in trover for the conversion by defendant of 15,840 feet of 2-inch used or secondhand pipe of an alleged value of $1,267.20; of 6,600 feet of 2%-inch used or secondhand pipe of the alleged value of $726; and of forty 2-inch gate valves of the alleged value of $200; or a total value of $2,193.20. The undisputed facts appear to be these:

The Altman-Rodgers Company, an Oklahoma corporation, of which plaintiff was president, was adjudged a bankrupt by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, on December 13, 1933. Among…