Florida Molasses Co. v. Berger

McCALEB, Justice.

Plaintiff, a Florida partnership, brought this suit against Samuel Berger, A. H. Golodetz, General Molasses Company and J. M. Carras, Inc. to recover the sum of $57,575.70. It alleged that, on or about May 13 or 14, 1948, it owned and had on *36board a vessel operated by J. M. Carras, Inc., enroute from Jacksonville, Florida to Puerto-Padre, Cuba, approximately 191,919 gallons of molasses having a value of 300 per gallon; that the defendants appropriated and converted the molasses, it being taken over to the use of the defendants without petitioner’s knowledge or consent; that…