Jewell v. Simpson
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Shawnee Superior Court. The opinion states the case. Trial at the November Term, 1885, and judgment for defendant. The plaintiff brings the case to this court.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Horton, C. J.:
This was an action brought by C. W. Jewell and J. F. Griffin, under the firm-name and style of the Topeka State Bank, against Benjamin F. Simpson, to recover four hundred dollars as damages for the alleged unlawful conversion of twenty head of hogs and two hundred bushels of wheat. The plaintiffs claim the property by virtue of a chattel mortgage dated August 18, 1883, given by Davis & Son and A. J. Davis to them to secure the payment of a note for one hundred and sixty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents, executed by the same parties.…
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- Tyler v. SaffordSupreme Court of Kansas · 1884
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