Askins v. Hearns

This case has become somewhat complicated by cross motions and ordérs to show cause, but the questions in difference between the parties can readily be distinguished, and I shall proceed to consider them in the order in which they have arisen in the cause.

The action is brought to recover damages for the conversion of a ring. The plaintiff is a non-resident, and the defendant is an infant. He appeared by a guardian, and put in an answer, in which, after denying generally all the allegations of *185the complaint, he proceeded to allege “ as a cov/mter-claim that the parties had exchanged rings, and…