Walters v. Weaver

This is an appeal from a judgment directing a verdict for plaintiff in an action brought to recover for defendants’ alleged conversion of plaintiff’s horse.

Plaintiff alleged employment of defendant Walters about March 1, 1947, under an oral contract to board and train plaintiff’s horse for a stipulated fee of $75 per month, and that defendant Evans knew of such contract; that Walters boarded and trained the animal for a time, but in June, 1947, plaintiff learned the animal had been sold to Evans, for the board and training bill, at a private sale, without due process of law for enforcement of…