American Indemnity Co. v. Peak

*607The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hutchison, J.:

The question here involved is the right of the defendants to meet and cover the claim of the plaintiff, at this time not resisted, with a set-off in the form of damages for the conversion by the plaintiff of property belonging to these defendants. The case was tried to the court with a reference to a jury of the question of ownership of the property in dispute and the value thereof. The jury found that the defendants were the owners of the property, and fixed the value thereof, which the trial court approved, and the court further found…