Lee v. Rutledge

The appellants, Lee & Brother, sued the appellee in the Circuit Court for Harford County, in an action of trover.

The declaration set out that the plaintiffs were possessed of an improved Champion reaping and mowing machine, of the value of $190, which they lost, and the same came to the possession of the defendant, who converted the same, etc. The defendant pleaded first, actio non, because the machine in plaintiffs’ declaration mentioned, came into the possession of defendant, under an agreement between plaintiffs and defendant, that they would furnish defendant a good and sufficient machine…