Starkey v. Powell

This is an action for trespass and conversion. The petition was filed in the Circuit Court of Pettis County, December 4, 1923, and consists of two counts, the first alleging a simple conversion of two hundred and fifty bushels of standing and growing corn, of the value of $177.50, and the second alleging conversion under Section 4242, Revised Statutes 1919, known as the treble- damage statute, of about fifty-five acres of standing eo unsevered from the ground, of the value of about $1300.

Defendant’s answer consisted of a general denial of the first and second counts of the petition, and…