Pratt
Pratt v. Padgett
Opinion
lead Opinion
Shaw, J.
From a judgment for $265 entered in favor of plaintiff, the defendant has appealed upon the judgment-roll.
The findings, in so far as applicable to the cause of action upon which the judgment was rendered, are as follows: On February 28, 1918, plaintiff was the owner, entitled to, and in possession of certain personal property consisting of tables, pictures, stools, cushions, water and wine glasses, cuspidors, a quantity of assorted liquors, one ice-box, two thousand chips, and a faro card-ease and check-rack, of the value of $265, all of which defendant on said date wrongfully and unlawfully took possession of and converted ,to his own use. That these findings fully support the judgment rendered is not open to the slightest question, [1] It is true that, in response to the allegations of a cross-complaint filed by defendant, wherein he sought a judgment against plaintiff for damages due to the fact that plaintiff had conducted a gambling house in a residence leased to him by defendant, thereby injuring the reputation of the house, as to which the court found that such lease of said premises so made by defendant to plaintiff was with the intention of both parties that the same…