Badger v. Batavia Paper Manufacturing Co.
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Kane county; the Hon. Silvanus Wilcox, Judge, presiding. This was an action of trover, by Alpheus Badger against The Batavia Paper Manufacturing Company and William M. Van Hortwick, to recover for the conversion of a rotary boiler and attachments. A trial was had, resulting in a judgment in favor of the defendants, from which the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sheldon
This was an action of trover, for the alleged conversion of a rotary boiler and attachments.
The Chicago Fibre and Paper Company, on September 1, 1859, bought of the Eagle Works Manufacturing Company the property, and gave a chattel mortgage thereon, to secure the payment of its note of that date for the purchase price. The boiler was set up at the works of the first named company, at Batavia, in Kane county.
The boiler was 25 feet long, 7 feet in diameter, weighing about 10,000 pounds. It had to be placed outside of the building then at the works, and a building was erected over it, 35 feet by…
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