Lincoln v. Packard

PLEASANTS, Associate Justice.

Appellees brought this suit to recover of appellant damages for the conversion of certain personal property described in their petition, and alleged to be worth the sum of $651. The cause was tried by a jury in the court below, and resulted in a verdict and judgment in favor of appellees for the sum of $483, from which judgment this appeal is prosecuted. The court below charged the jury that, in event they found for plaintiffs, they should assess the damages at the “reasonable value of said goods.” The appellant by his fourth assignment of error assails this…