Roach v. Turk

The declaration in this case contains two counts: one in trover, the other for money had and received *709by the defendants to the plaintiffs’ use. The pleas are not guilty, as to the count in trover; and, not indebted, as to the other count. The facts are briefly these:

The plaintiffs, Turk & Hawkins, lived in Tunica county, Mississippi, and were, in the year 1869, engaged in farming. Turk, being sick at the time, sent three bales of cotton by one Samuel Smith, to Commerce Landing, on' the Mississippi river, to be shipped to the defendants, A. J. Roach & Co., who were his commission merchants in…