Bennett & Witte v. Williamson

We have had some difficulty in arriving at a conclusion satisfactory to ourselves as to one of the principal questions argued to us by counsel, viz., whether it was shown by the evidence that the lumber in question, which the defendants below, Bennett & Witte, were .charged with converting to their own use, to the damage of Williamson, was at the time the property of Williamson, as must have been found by the jury to justify the verdict which was rendered, That is, whether *108the logs from which the lumber in question was sawed by Tuthill & Co. had been sold to them by Williamson in such a way…