Lane v. Tanner

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of defendants. The plaintiff as trustee for Addie L. Allen, a bankrupt, seeks recovery for the alleged fraudulent conversion of property belonging to the firm of A. C. Williams & Co., in which Mrs. Allen was a partner. The complaint contains averments to the effect that on April 22, 1905, while Addie L. Allen’s petition in bankruptcy was pending before the federal court, the defendants unlawfully conspired to take certain personal property of A. C. Williams & Co. situated at the dairy of said firm, and by means of a sale thereof, to convert it to…