Winthrop Products Corp. v. Elroth Co.

In this action for the conversion of thirty-seven items of personal property, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the amount of $9,350.19. The only evidence of value came from one Fein, the president of the plaintiff, which conducted a wood working plant at Turners Falls in a building owned by the defendant to which it was indebted for rent. One issue at the trial was whether the defendant converted the plaintiff’s property in the defendant’s building on April 28, 1948, by an attachment made on a writ which was never entered.

*84Fein, called as a witness by the plaintiff, testified…