Blackman v. Lehman, Durr & Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the City Court of Montgomery. Tried before the Hon. John A. Minnis. This action was brought by Homer Blackman, against Lehman, Durr & Co., to recover damages for the alleged conversion by the defendants of one hundred and eighty bonds, issued by the corporate authorities of the city of Troy, in aid of the Mobile and Girard Railroad.
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Appeal from the City Court of Montgomery. Tried before the Hon. John A. Minnis. This action was brought by Homer Blackman, against Lehman, Durr & Co., to recover damages for the alleged conversion by the defendants of one hundred and eighty bonds, issued by the corporate authorities of the city of Troy, in aid of the Mobile and Girard Railroad. On the undisputed facts of the case, the court charged the jury, in effect, that the plaintiff was not entitled to recover; and this charge, to which an exception was duly reserved, is now assigned as error. The opinion states all the material facts.…
1Opinion of the CourtBricnell, C. J.
The action is trover, for the conversion of one hundred and eighty bonds of the city of Troy, for. the payment to bearer of the sum of one hundred dollars each, in ten annual installments, with interest at eight per cent, per annum from date, the 13th January, 1869. In December, 1869, eighty of these bonds were by the plaintiff deposited with his son-in-law, one M. B. Locke,, who was a merchant, banker, and factor, residing and doing business at Union Springs, the place of plaintiff’s residence. The remaining one hundred bonds had been deposited for plaintiff with the firm of Epping & Howard,…
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