46 So. 479 | Ala. | 1908
-While the plaintiff in trover should be permitted to prove the value of the chattels converted at any time between the conversion and trial, it was error on the part of the trial court to permit proof of the value of lumber at Brown’s mill, in the absence of any evidence that the logs had been converted into lumber. Lumber is to be distinguished from logs or timber (Webster’s Dictionary), and in common parlance as well means more than ordinary logs.
For the same reason, the trail court erred in giving chage 2 requested by the plaintiff, as there was no proof of the conversion of lumber as set out in the second count of the complaint.
The trial court committed no reversible error in giving charge 1 requested by the plaintiff.
Charge 1, the general charge, requested by the defendant, was properly refused.
The exceptions to the rulings of the court with reference to the evidence, save as is heretofore discussed, were clearly innocuous to appellant.
The judgment of the circuit court is reversed, and the cause is remanded.
Fever sed and remanded.