Lauchheimer & Sons v. Jacobs
Supreme Court of Georgia
Trover. Before Judge Reid. City court of Atlanta. April 27, 1905. The plaintiffs asserted title to certain personal property consisting of pants, sack-coats, overcoats, and jackets, eacli being tagged by certain numbers, and alleged that the defendant was in possession thereof.
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Trover. Before Judge Reid. City court of Atlanta. April 27, 1905. The plaintiffs asserted title to certain personal property consisting of pants, sack-coats, overcoats, and jackets, eacli being tagged by certain numbers, and alleged that the defendant was in possession thereof. The defendant denied that he was in possession of any property belonging to the plaintiffs, but asserted in his plea that the plaintiffs sued out bail in trover against him for the property sued for, and that, upon the defendant's declining to give bond, the plaintiffs gave bond and took from the custody of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Atkinson^ «T.
1. This is a suit in trover. The question is one involving title to certain personal property. The plaintiffs assert title to certain pants, sack-coats, overcoats, and jackets, set forth in their petition, bearing certain numbers as marks of identification. The burden of proof is upon the plaintiffs to establish their title. It appears that Lane was a traveling salesman of the plaintiffs, and that the plaintiffs, reserving title in themselves, had delivered into the possession of Lane, to be used as samples, the identical goods which are described in the petition. There was no…
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