Sweetser v. McCrea

In this case the appellant, Sweetser, sued the appellee, McCrea, in a complaint of four paragraphs. As appellant’s counsel say, however, that “the case was wholly *405tried under the averments in the second and third paragraphs,” we need not notice the other paragraphs of the complaint. ¥e take from the brief of appellant’s counsel the following summary of the second and third paragraphs of the complaint:

“The second paragraph states that, on the 8th day of June, 1881, the appellant was the owner of a stock of dry goods in the city of Wabash, Indiana, of the cash value of ten thousand dollars;…