Porter v. Bucher

This action is in trover for the conversion of hay. The plaintiff appeals from a judgment against her, and from an order denying her motion for a new trial.

Appellant is the wife of Howard B. Porter, with whom she lived upon a farm upon which her husband had duly filed a declaration of homestead, and which farm was principally used for raising hay. The wife was the owner of about one hundred and thirty head of cattle and twenty or thirty horses, which were her separate property, and were kept on the homestead.

The crop of hay for 1888, estimated at about one hundred and twenty tons, was stacked…