Richmond Wharf & Dock Co. v. Blake Brothers Co.

This is an appeal taken by the plaintiff from a judgment of nonsuit entered in favor of the defendant, and the appeal is before us upon a bill of exceptions. The material facts are as follows: The action is brought by the plaintiff to recover from the defendant the value of certain alleged personal property claimed to have been converted by the defendant to its own use, and also for compensation for the use of said property by the defendant. The personal property claimed to have been converted by the defendant is a certain conveyor described in the complaint as “that certain personal property commonly known and described as a conveyor, together with all belts, rollers, pulleys, appliances and personal property of every kind and description used in connection with said conveyor, which said conveyor and property then and there during all of said times herein mentioned teas situated upon that certain wharf and approach to said wharf hereinafter described, and which conveyor at all times herein mentioned ran from the outer end of said wharf across the said wharf and across the approach to said wharf to the upland adjacent to the land end of fhe approach to said wharf. The said wha/rf…