Barker v. Stephenson

Miller, Judge:

Plaintiff, as Kanawha Hardwood Company, sued defendants in trover and conversion for the value of about 250,000 feet of lumber, which, they allfege, while they were in the actual possession thereof and in the act of branding and inspecting the same, defendants with force and arms and without their. consent and against their protest seized, carried away and converted to their own'use, damaging them in the sum of $15,000.

O.n the trial, concluded March 17, 1906, defendants offering no evidence, the court below, on motion of defendants excluded the plaintiffs’ evidence and directed…