Boulden v. Gough

Pennewill, J.,

charging the jury:

Gentlemen of the jury :—This is an action of trover, which is a remedy to recover the value of personal property wrongfully converted by another to his own use.

The suit is brought by the plaintiff David Boulden against the defendant Joseph T. Gough for the recovery of the value of a lot of wheat which the plaintiff claims was his property, and which was on or about the twenty-sixth day of November, 1898, taken, with*49out his consent, by his former tenant, Joseph S. Petit, and delivered to the defendant, who converted the same to his own use. The plaintiff…