Culbreath v. Patton

Etta Eoundfield Patton filed a trover suit against Marguerite Culbreath in the municipal court of Augusta, on September 20, 1945. The petition alleged in substance that the defendant was in possession of a certain piano of the value of $100, to which the plaintiff had title, and that a demand for the piano had been made on the defendant and refused. The defendant answered, denying substantially the allegations of the petition, and alleging that the piano was her property and not the property of the plaintiff.

On the trial, the plaintiff testified: that she had been living in New York for the…