Merrill v. Mason

This is a suit for conversion in .which plaintiff seeks to recover from defendant damages for alleged conversion of a one-half interest in a threshing outfit consisting of an engine and separator. The defendant, Mason, was an implement merchant located at Maryville, and plaintiff was a farmer living in the same vicinity. It is admitted that in February, 1910, the defendant was the owner of said threshing outfit, and that at said date he sold according to plaintiff’s evidence a one-half interest in it to one Samuel Moon, but according to defendant’s evidence, the whole property. Moon, in…