O'Leary v. Harris

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Kalisch, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered upon a verdict directed by the trial judge of the Burlington Circuit Court in favor of the defendant-respondent.

The plaintiff, as administratrix of John J. O’Leary, Jr., deceased, brought her action in the court below for trover and conversion against the defendant to recover the value of growing grain which the plaintiff claimed belonged to her as outgoing tenant.

The defendant, by his answer, denied that the plaintiff had any property in the growing grain, and also set up that by the lease under…