St. Louis Union Trust Co. v. MacGovern & Co.

I. Trover for conversion of two Alice Chalmers electrical machines and other apparatus and connection used therewith.

At the close of the testimony for the plaintiff, the court indicated that it would instruct the jury that under the law and the evidence the plaintiff was not entitled to recover. Thereupon plaintiff took a nonsuit with leave to file motion to set the nonsuit aside, which being overruled, the plaintiff brought the case here by appeal.

The evidence showed that the plaintiff, St. Louis Union Trust Company, was the trustee in a deed of trust dated February 5, 1917, made by the…