Byne v. Hatcher
Supreme Court of Georgia
Principal and Agent. Torts. Conversion. Trespass. Before B. P. Hollis, Esq., Judge pro hao vice. Lee Superior Court. April Term, 1885. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Hall, Justice.
This was an action to recover four bales of cotton alleged to belong to the plaintiff, Hatcher, and to have been'wrongfully converted by the defendant, Byne.
It is not denied that Hatcher was the owner of the cotton, and that it had been wrongfully converted by one Smith, who acted as Byne’s clerk and general agent in.the sale of goods and the collection of debts made at his store. Sam. Brantly, a tenant of Hatcher’s, made the cotton in question on the plantation of his landlord, and when it was matured and gathered, delivered it to him in payment of rent and supplies furnished.…
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