Sloan v. Merrill

This is an action of tort for the conversion of 500 half-rolls of jute bagging. The defendant, a deputy sheriff, *18justifies under an attachment and execution against the Dolphin Manufacturing Company. The plaintiff has had a verdict, and the case is before us on exceptions. It will not be necessary to examine in detail the several rulings requested and refused, or made against the defendant’s objection, as they all turn on the question whether the plaintiff’s own statement of the purchase under which he claims the goods does not show, as matter of law, that they became the property of the…