Scudder v. Anderson

Plaintiff, as vendee of John Scudder, brought this action'in trover for the conversion of various articles formerly owned by the Marquette & Pacific Rolling Mill Company, and used on their mining property in Marquette county. This company had, up to 1878, worked an iron mine on 40 acres of their own, and an adjoining,40 acres in which they owned seven-sixteenths in fee, and had a lease of the other undivided interest. In October, 1877, a levy of execution on their landed mining property was carried to a sale, one Ward being the purchaser. On the 3d day of September, 1878, William W. Wheaton,…