SUPREME COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3089, 13 January 1873, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

This Day.

CIVIL SITTINGS,

(Before His Honor Mr Justice Chapman and

a Special Jury.)

Peitcharh v P ■rKMAjr.— This was an action for wrongful conversion of property. It was alleged that about the 7th of June last, pi.-(intiff bad a waggon and team of nine horses on the road between Pigroot and ' aseby, in charge «f a man named Paynes ; that on the morning after his arrival near to ]S aseby Haynes missed the horses, and subsequently discovered three of them in defendant’s stable Plaintiff, on hearing of this, went to N aseby, and on the 14th of June demanded possession of the horses, and was refused ; wherefore he now sought to recover LISO, the estimated value of the horses, and LIOO for detention and loss occasioned by non-possession. 1 'efendant denied all the material allegations contained in the declaration. Mr Smith, with Mr Stout, appeared for plaintiff; and Mr Barton, with Mr Chapman, for defendant. The evidence was very similar to that given in Nutter v. Pritchard and other cases, out of which the present action arises. The The defendant Pritchard’s examination lasted the greater portion of the day, and was in effect as follows : -In June last he owned a team of horses, wliich was sent to Naseby in charge of one Thomas Haynes. He last saw them at the Pigroot, and afterwards some of them in defendant’s stables at Naueby. Among them were there the subject of this action. He demanded delivery of them about June 14, but Packman refused to give them up. He had not possession of them even now, and valued them at Ll5O.