Patterson v. Williams
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 63, Oct. T., 1912, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 1, Phila. Co., June T., 1909, No. 392, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Theodore C. Patterson v. Morris Williams. Assumpsit for the use and conversion of a horse. Before Kinsey, J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff for $84.50. Defendant appealed. Error assigned was in refusing binding instructions for defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Rice, P. J.,
The plaintiff placed a black mare, called “Lillian,” for pasture with John McCloskey, an agistor, at Erden*301heim stock farm. Upon the latter’s death his son succeeded him in possession of the farm and the conduct of the business, and continued to pasture and board the mare until April 1, 1903, when the defendant in this case became the tenant of the farm, took over the business, and received from McCloskey, among other horses, the mare Lillian, which he boarded from that time until May, 1906. On the tenth of that month the defendant made written demand on the plaintiff for…
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