Ellis v. Wire

This was a suit, begun before a justice of the peace, by tbe appellant, for tbe taking and conversion of wheat and straw of tbe appellant by tbe appellee.

There seems to have been no controversy in tbe evidence, concerning tbe. plaintiff’s title to tbe property. Tbe defendant, however, forcibly took possession of it as it stood in tbe field, driving the plaintiff' away, harvested and sold tbe grain for one dollar and seventy-five cents per bushel, and on the trial was permitted, over tbe plaintiff’s objection, to prove tbe value of bis own labor in harvesting and threshing the crop, for tbe…