Mound Coal Co. v. Jeffrey Mfg. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of West Virginia, at Wheeling; Alston G. Dayton, Judge. Detinue by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company against the Mound Coal Company. There was a judgment for plaintiff (215 Fed. 222), and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
PRITCHARD, Circuit Judge.
This is an action in detinue, in which the defendant in error, the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, claims title and the right to possession of certain machinery sold to the Mound City Coal Company, a copartnership, under three conditional sale contracts dated May 17, 1911. The plaintiff in error will hereafter be referred to as defendant, and the defendant in error as plaintiff ; such being the respective positions occupied by the parties in the court below.
This machinery was shipped under the conditional sale contracts mentioned to the Mound City Coal Company, at…
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