Sherry v. Picken

Suit by Picken against Sherry and others, *376for a quantity of corn, alleged to have been the property 0f former and wrongfully converted by the latter to their own use.

Answer, denying property in the plaintiff, and alleging property in the defendants. Issue by reply. 1

Trial by jury; judgment for the plaintiff.

Picken claimed title to the corn by virtue of a purchase from Sherry. Sherry, and the other defendants who claimed through him, denied that Picken so far complied with his contract of purchase as to vest the title to the corn in him. And this was the question in the cause.

Sherry raised the…