Cooper v. Newmyer

Action in trover. The parties’ names appear here in the same order as in the trial court. Plaintiffs are farmers, and defendant is a warehouseman. Plaintiffs alleged that they were the owners, and entitled to possession, of certain potatoes; that they stored them with defendant at his warehouse; that he failed and refused to deliver them on demand, or to pay the value thereof, which value was stated in the complaint, and that defendant converted the potatoes to his own use, all of which defendant denied. The case was tried to a jury; the verdict and judgment was in defendant’s favor, and…