Schulte v. Florian

L. F. COTTEY, Special Commissioner.

This case originated in the Magistrate Court of St. Louis County on a petition containing the formal averments of the old common law action of trover, it being alleged that on a certain day plaintiff was the owner of, and entitled to the possession of, a plaster mixing machine of the value of $300 which the defendant then and there “wrongfully took,” and that “defendant-refused to return the same and unlawfully converted and disposed of said property for his own use.” On appeal to the Circuit Court trial was begun before a jury, but at the conclusion of…