Service Purchasing Co. v. Brennan

This is an action for conversion. Originating in a justice's court, the case was taken on appeal to the circuit court, wherein, upon a trial to the court alone, a jury being waived, a judgment was rendered in favor of plaintiff, and against defendant, in the sum of $22. A motion for a new trial was filed and overruled, following which defendant prayed for and was granted an appeal to the Supreme Court, evidently upon the theory that there was a live constitutional question in the case. That court found that such was not the situation, however, and consequently ordered the case to be…