Vermont Evaporator Co. v. Taft

The plaintiff sold the defendant an evaporator accepting in payment therefor three promissory notes for $53.33, each. At the time of the sale, a written memorandum evidencing the terms of the sale and providing that the title to the evaporator should remain in the plaintiff until the notes were paid, was executed by the defendant and delivered to the plaintiff. Default having been made in such payment, the plaintiff, acting through a public officer, made demand for the evaporator, and the defendant refused to surrender the same. Thereupon, this suit was brought for a conversion of the…