Brown v. Boyce

Citations

• 68 Ill. 294

Syllabus

<p>Trover—conversión. AVhere the defendant merely assisted a neighbor in driving home some cattle he had bought, and while on the way the plaintiff’s heifer got with the other cattle, the parties driving using every reasonable exertion to keep it out of the herd, and the neighbor, being unable to separate it from his other cattle, drove it home, and the defendant promises the neighbor to see the plaintiff and buy it for him: Held, that the defendant was not liable to the plaintiff in trover, or as a drover, and that the fact that defendant told plaintiff, when asked if he knew where the heifer was, that he did not know, could not make him guilty of a conversion.</p>