Brown & Hackney, Inc. v. Loveless
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from White Circuit Court, J. M. Jackson, Judge; STATEMENT OE EAOTS. This was an action in replevin by W. J. Loveless and A. C. McGregor, doing business under the .firm name of W. J. Loveless Veneer Company, against J. B. Bridge-man, to recover 30,000 feet of gum and cypress logs. The defendant denied ownership of the logs in the plaintiffs, and averred ownership in himself.
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Appeal from White Circuit Court, J. M. Jackson, Judge; STATEMENT OE EAOTS. This was an action in replevin by W. J. Loveless and A. C. McGregor, doing business under the .firm name of W. J. Loveless Veneer Company, against J. B. Bridge-man, to recover 30,000 feet of gum and cypress logs. The defendant denied ownership of the logs in the plaintiffs, and averred ownership in himself. Brown & Hackney, Inc., filed an interplea in which it claimed that it had title to the 30,000 feet of gum and cypress logs in question, and was entitled to the possession thereof. After all the parties had announced…
1Opinion of the Court
Hart, J.,
(after stating the facts). The court submitted to the jury the issue of fact between the plaintiffs and the defendant, Bridgeman, as to the ownership of the logs. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiffs, and, no appeal having been taken from the judgment rendered, the issue of ownership of the logs as between the plaintiffs and Bridgeman is not involved in this appeal.
Counsel for Brown & Hackney, Inc., assign as error the refusal of the court to give instructions number 2 and 5, which are as follows:
“2. The jury are instructed that if the plaintiffs, or either of them, knew of…
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