Hewett v. Chapman

This was an action of trover commenced in justice’s court, where the plaintiff recovered judgment,, which on certiorari to the circuit was reversed.

The plaintiff’s claim was for a quantity of wood, cut from trees purchased from defendants and paid for in work and labor performed for them, and the defendants’ position was-that the plaintiff had brought an action of assumpsit for such work and labor and recovered a judgment in that action, and that therefore the trees and wood cut therefrom was not the property of the plaintiff.

In the present casé the plaintiff, by calling as witnesses-some of…