Prince v. Alabama State Fair
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Jefferson. Tried before the Hon. James J. Banks. This action was .brought by the appellant, Mrs. Bettie H. Prince, against The Alabama State Fair, a corporation, to recover one hundred dollars damages for the conversion of a picture painted and owned by the plaintiff. The action was originally commenced in a justice of the peace court.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Jefferson. Tried before the Hon. James J. Banks. This action was .brought by the appellant, Mrs. Bettie H. Prince, against The Alabama State Fair, a corporation, to recover one hundred dollars damages for the conversion of a picture painted and owned by the plaintiff. The action was originally commenced in a justice of the peace court. Upon judgment being rendered for the plaintiff for one hundred dollars, the defendant appealed from said judgment to the circuit court. The complaint filed in the circuit court contained two counts ; one in trover, and the other…
1Opinion of the CourtBbjckell, C. J.
— The primary question is, what was the relation created by the transaction into which the parties entered, and what were their respective rights, duties and liabilities springing from the relation. The transaction was a bailment; the painting was en*344trusted to the defendant upon its invitation, for a special object or purpose, upon a contract that when the object or purpose was accomplished, the painting would be returned or redelivered to the plaintiff. — Story on Bailments, § 2. The insistence of the counsel of the defendant is, that though there was a bailment of the painting, the bailment…
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