Colonial Hill Co. v. Moncrief Furnace Co.

The second headnote only will be discussed. This action in trover was between the original seller of the property sued for and a third person—not the original purchaser. Upon the trial the plaintiff elected to take a money' verdict, and the trial judge, sitting without the intervention of a jury, rendered a judgment in favor of the plaintiff for the exact amount of the purchase-price of the property as set forth in the retention-of-title contract.

It is well settled, that, “to authorize a money verdict in a trover suit, there must be some evidence to show the value of the personal property…