Lodge v. Samuels

This was an action in the nature of trover and conversion, brought originally against E. M. Samuels for the conversion of two hundred and eighty-five dozen broom-corn brooms. E. M. Samuels died, and the suit was revived against the defendant as his executor.

The plaintiff claimed the brooms by virtue of a chattel mortgage made by George S. Fuller-and David Graham, residents of Illinois, to Levander W. Pattison, who assigned the mortgage to plaintiffs. The case shows that Fuller and Graham were in the business of manufacturing and selling brooms at Monticello in Illinois, and after the making…