Uncle Sam's Loan Office v. Emery

LEVY, Associate Justice.

— By her petition Mrs. B. A. Emery claims that she had pawned a pair of diamond earrings and some other articles of jewelry, to secure a loan of $88, with the understanding that the goods pawned were to be held until she could redeem same; and that no interest was to be charged on the money; and that appellant has converted the property to its own use and benefit. She prayed judgment for the possession of the property, and, in the alternative, for the market value thereof.

By the answer it was claimed that the property was pawned by a contract of pawn providing that if…