Croonquist v. Flatner
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by plaintiff from a judgment of tbe district court for Stevens county, Sleeper, J., presiding, (acting for the judge of tbe 16th district,) affirming a justice’s judgment from which the plaintiff had appealed on questions of law alone. The action was for conversion of a cow of the value of $30, butchered by defendant, alleged to be one of several described in a mortgage from defendant to plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtGileillan, C. J.
The appeal from the justice of the peace to the district court being on questions of law alone, there was no question of fact for that court to consider, nor of the effect of the evidence, except to determine whether it was such that from it the justice might have found facts that would justify the judgment. As the •evidence was of such a character, there is nothing in the second assignment of error. As there was on the evidence a question of identity of the cow killed by defendant with that described in plaintiff’s mortgage and claimed by him, it was proper to prove that, after the taking of…
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