Yatesville Planing Mill Co. v. Johnson

The plaintiff, a partnership, sue.d in bail-trover for the highest proved value of 300,000 feet of boards, claimed to have been manufactured from timber purchased from the defendant. The defendant replevied the property, and denied that he had sold the timber to the plaintiff, or that the plaintiff had title to it. The plaintiff’s evidence tended to sustain its contention, while the evidence of the defendant flatly denied a sale to the plaintiff. From the plaintiff’s evidence it developed that the plaintiff had purchased from the defendant “all the timber defendant had remaining standing on…