Miller v. Smith
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant from an order of the district court for Nobles county, Dickinson, J., presiding, refusing a new trial. The action was for the wrongful taking and strfcrSSlfuent conversion, by the defendant, of one pony and one yoke of oxen, the property of plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtCornell, J.
The complaint is not only for an alleged wrongful taking originally, and an unjust detention, but for a subsequent conversion of the property after demand. There was some evidence to support a finding that after the purchase of the property by defendant at the foreclosure sale, and while he still had it in his possession and control, the plaintiff disaffirmed the transaction, on the ground of his infancy, demanded a return of the property, which was refused, and that the defendant afterwards sold and disposed Of the same to his own use. The exception taken to the refusal to charge the…
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