Fisher v. Tuller

The appellant and Owen Tuller were partners, and as partners carried the United States mails in Missouri, under a contract with the Government. During the war of the Rebellion, confederate soldiers captured and destroyed property of the partnership to the value of twenty-five thousand dollars. In the year 1866, the firm filed a claim for the value of the property, and the prosecution of the claim was entrusted to Tuller. Pie received from the Government in payment of the claim, in the year 1867, twenty thousand dollars, which he appropriated to his own use. He concealed from Fisher the fact…