Dixie Guano Co. v. Wessel

WADDILL, Circuit Judge.

The defendants in error, plaintiffs in the District Court, instituted their suit at law against the plaintiff in error, defendant below (hereinafter referred to as plaintiffs and defendant), to recover $4,964.40, the value of 110,320 net pounds of nitrate, alleged to have been feloniously stolen from the plaintiffs by W. B. Tredwell, and wrongfully sold and delivered by him to the defendant, and by it converted to its own use, without the knowledge and consent of the plaintiffs, who never parted with their title to said nitrates, and have never been paid therefor.

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