Cook v. Hopper
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Hillsdale Circuit. This suit was brought in the court below by Milo H. Hopper, against Addison P. Cook, Harvey Ransom and Christopher J. Dickerson, and was tried by a jury. The trial resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff, upon which judgment was rendered. The defendants bring the cause to this court by writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtCooley, J.
Hopper, the defendant in error, brought action in the court below against Cook, Dickerson and Ransom, for the unlawful conversion of certain buggies claimed to belong to him. The defendants justified under a writ of attachment in favor of Cook against one Hill, whose property they alleged the buggies to he. Ransom was the officer who •served the attachment, and Dickerson the attorney who had taken it out and directed the service.
The plaintiff having given evidence and rested his case, Ransom took the stand as a witness and testified that he told Hopper he was going to attach the buggies, and…
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