Robinson v. Way

This is an action for the conversion of a desk. The plaintiffs had delivered it to one Gilman, under an agreement for purchase on the instalment plan, by which, as usual, the plaintiffs had an immediate right of possession on Gilman’s failure to make the specified payments. Gilman had failed to make these payments. The defendant’s testator, Mr. John M. *213Way, attached the desk in a suit against Gilman, and told the officer to put the desk where they would not know where it was. It also appeared that he said that the plaintiffs had been trying to get a desk, but he had got it put away where they…