Keating v. Hannenkamp
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis City (Circuit Court.—IIon. Sixepard Barclay, Judge. (1) The judgment should be reversed and the cause remanded, because the court, sitting as a jury, misconceived the law. (a) This is an action to recover the .value of specific personal property, converted by the respondents to their own use.
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Appeal from St. Louis City (Circuit Court.—IIon. Sixepard Barclay, Judge. (1) The judgment should be reversed and the cause remanded, because the court, sitting as a jury, misconceived the law. (a) This is an action to recover the .value of specific personal property, converted by the respondents to their own use. (5) The respondents were joint trespassers—Hannenkamp, because he had no right to seize the property, and Cottrill, because he became a purchaser at a wrongful sale, and took possession of the property bought by him at such sale. McManus v. Lee, 43 Mo. 208; Cooper v. Johnson, 81 Mo.…
1Opinion of the CourtBlack, J.
The plaintiff brought this suit to recover the value of a quantity of furniture and fixtures. The case was tried by the court without a jury, resulting in a finding and judgment for defendant Cottrill, and a finding and judgment for plaintiff against defendant, Hannenkamp, in the sum of one dollar, and the plaintiff appealed.
The evidence discloses the following facts : Defendant Hannenkamp and others being the owners of a three-story building leased the same to C. W.. Herbert for a period of five years, at eighteen hundred dollars per year for the first three years and two thousand dollars…
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