Gilbert v. Walker
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for the alleged conversion of a promissory note sent the defendants for collection; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the court, F. B. Hall, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendants, from which the plaintiff appealed for alleged errors in the rulings of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtTorrance, J.
The complaint in this case is for the conversion of a certain promissory note belonging to the plaintiff, and it contains but a single count. The answer admits the ownership and delivery of the note, and the demand as alleged, but denies the conversion. It also sets out in detail certain facts, the substance of which is that the defendants with the plaintiff’s consent received the note to forward for the plaintiff to a western company for collection; that they had done so and the note had been paid to said western company; that said western company had never paid over to the defendants the…
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