Steiner v. McMillan
Montana Supreme Court
Appeals from District Court, Powell County, in the Third Judicial District; Thos. Lentz, a Judge of the Fourth District, Presiding. Action by Reuben Steiner against Peter McMillan. Prom a judgment for defendant and an order overruling a motion for new trial, plaintiff appeals.
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Appeals from District Court, Powell County, in the Third Judicial District; Thos. Lentz, a Judge of the Fourth District, Presiding. Action by Reuben Steiner against Peter McMillan. Prom a judgment for defendant and an order overruling a motion for new trial, plaintiff appeals. In all essential particulars plaintiff’s action is to recover , damages for the conversion by defendant of his interest in the sheep in question as the value of such interest is determined upon the trial. The defendant has denied all the allegations of the complaint and denied plaintiff’s ownership in the property. The…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Reynolds
The complaint in this case consists of two counts. The first count alleges that about the month of March, 1916, plaintiff *35and defendant entered into a copartnership for the purpose of carrying on the business of handling sheep and other livestock in Powell county, Montana, and that in fulfillment of such partnership agreement they purchased together about 1,100 head of sheep which they jointly fed, owned, ranged and kept; that on or about June 1, 1916, defendant gave notice of the termination of the copartnership, and thereupon appropriated to his own use all of said sheep, excluded plaintiff…
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