183 Ind. 497 | Ind. | 1915
— This is an action in conversion in which appellee seeks to recover for certain wheat sown by him, which, it is alleged, was wrongfully appropriated by appellant. The latter has appealed from a judgment of the trial court sustaining appellee’s claim, and challenges the court’s action in overruling his demurrer to the complaint. That pleading, omitting the formal parts, reads as follows: ‘ ‘ Said plaintiff complains of said defendant and says, that heretofore on, to wit, the ■ — — day of April, 1910, and for a number of yéars previous thereto, he, the said plaintiff, was in possession of the farm of his brother in Perry Township, said county and state, as a tenant for an indefinite term, and theretofore, in the fall of 1909, as such tenant had sowed fourteen (14) acres of wheat on said farm; that thereafter, to wit, in the spring of 1910, the said farm was sold by this plaintiff’s brother to said defendant, but said crop of wheat was reserved for this plaintiff; that on the-day of April, 1910, this plaintiff removed from said farm and said defendant, as such purchaser thereof, moved onto said farm; and this plaintiff further says that on the-day of July, 1910, when the said crop of wheat was ripe and ready for harvesting, said defendant refused to permit this plaintiff to go upon said farm to harvest said crop of wheat, and thereafter said defendant cut and harvested said fourteen (14) acres of
Notis. — Reported in 109 N. E. 758. As to conversion of personalty sufficient to sustain action of trover, see 24 Am. St. 795. See, also, under (1, 2) 38 Cyc. 2008; (3) 3 C. J. 1410, 1434 ; 2 Cyc. 1014, 1018; (4) 3 Cyc. 443 ; 31 Cyc. 358.