Messenger v. Murphy
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Chehalis county, Irwin, J., entered January 21, 1903, upon a verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff for $479 damages for conversion.
1Opinion of the CourtHadley, J.
This action was brought by respondent against appellants to recover the value of certain personal property, which, it is alleged, was wrongfully taken and converted by appellants. Other incidental damages are alleged, but at the trial the evidence was restricted to the value of the property. Appellants answered the complaint, setting up the record of certain justice court proceedings, by which the property in question had been attached, and afterwards sold under execution. The process in the justice court was by publication, and the proceedings were waged on the theory that respondent was at…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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