Pierce v. Loo Sing

This was an action in trover, brought by the owner of a suit of clothes, of the value of $20, to recover possession of the clothes, which he had delivered to the defendant for the purpose of being cleaned and pressed. When the owner demanded the clothes the defendant refused to deliver them, denying that he had them or that the plaintiff had ever delivered them to him. Thereupon the owner filed his suit in trover, and subsequently, one day after the service of the suit, the clothes were put by some unknown person upon the plaintiff’s porch and he recovered them in good condition. The fact…