Heller v. Fabel

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Simpson,

Defendant appeals from the judgment entered on a verdict in favor of plaintiffs, in a suit to recover the value of six $1,000 coupon bonds of the Fourth Liberty Loan and two $500 registered bonds of the Stroudsburg Creamery Company, which were in defendant’s possession, and which she refused to deliver to plaintiffs on demand.

The form of action was one which, prior to our procedure acts, would have been called trover and conversion, and plaintiffs’ counsel, in preparing the statement, of claim, followed the old practice and averred, inter alia, that plaintiffs…