Citation Numbers: 53 Mich. 516
Judges: Other, Sherwood
Filed Date: 4/30/1884
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 9/8/2022
The action in this case is trover for the ■conversion of a satin delaine lounge contracted for by a Mrs. Lucy Hall, with the agreement that the title to the property ¡should remain in the plaintiff till paid for. The property was procured of the plaintiff at East Saginaw, and the contract price to be paid was twenty dollars. After Mrs. Hall had paid eight dollars on her contract she removed the lounge to Saginaw and sold it to the defendant, who, on demand therefor — which, we think, was sufficient — refused to comply, and the plaintiff brought this suit, first before a justice, ¡and obtained judgment. Defendant then appealed to the •circuit. On the trial there the plaintiff again had judgment, and the case is now before us on writ of error.
The testimony shows the plaintiff contracted to Mrs. Hall “the lounge; that he had a book-keeper by the name of Fox who sometimes acted as his salesman, and in little matters ‘had some discretion; that about the time Mrs. Hall was moving the lounge to Saginaw, Fox informed the plaintiff of what she was doing and the plaintiff gave him special orders to collect the money or get the goods and it does not appear he ever gave' Fox any other authority. Fox then called on Mrs. Hall and notified her of the balance yet due. She said .she knew it; that she was about to start a boarding-house in the city of Saginaw, and if he would let her take the lounge •over there she would pay the balance the following week. The plaintiff consented to this arrangement but did not know that Mrs. Hall had sold the lounge until after defendant had bought it, and that he never consented to her selling it. And as soon as he learned she had sold it to defendant he informed him of plaintiff’s title to the property, and that he wanted the amount due upon it, or the property. The testimony is •conflicting as to the last three facts stated.
There was no sufficient testimony in the ease upon which
The law and the facts are clearly with the plaintiff, and
The judgment must be affirmed.