Allen v. Ogden

WASHINGTON, [Circuit Justice.]

This is an action of trover and conversion, for forty-one tons of pig iron. John Davis, in January 1802; being possessed of a quantity of pig iron, at different places, and amongst others, the quantity in question, it being in Swar-tout's yard, in New-York, rented by Davis as a place of deposit for that article; empowered a Mr. Champless, in New-York, in writing, to sell the same for the highest market price in cash; or if this could not be done, to offer the same to the defendant, at the market price, on condition that he should pay down 6000 dollars, and that…