Hackett v. Freeman & Graves
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Pottawattamie District Court, at Avoca.— Hon. W. R. Green, Judge. Action at law to recover the value of eight hogs alleged to have been taken from the plaintiff wrongfully, and converted by the defendants to- their own use. There was a trial by jury, and a verdict and judgment for the defendants. The plaintiff appeals,—
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
The defendants are the co-partnership of Freeman & Graves, and W. H. Freeman and Henry Graves, the partners who compose the firm. The plaintiff claims that in the latter part of March in the year 1894 eight hogs which he had were stolen from ' him and sold to the defendants, and that the defendants received the hogs, and converted them to their own use. This action is brought to recover the value of the hogs.
4 I. Edwin Bird testified that he and G. A. Brown stole the hogs in question from the plaintiff about 11 o’clock at night, and drove them to- Brown’s place, where they were at once loaded…
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