Bode

The plaintiffs were the proprietors of a bonded warehouse in San Francisco, and had one R. P. Scott in their employ as foreman or manager of the warehouse. In February, 1886, they discovered that Scott had been unfaithful to his trust for a number of years, and had privately and corruptly sold various articles of merchandise that had been stored in their warehouse. A portion of the merchandise so sold by him consisted of boxes of sheet tin, which were purchased by the defendants, and upon the discovery of the fact the plaintiffs brought this action to recover from the defendants the value of the tin thus received by them. The complaint alleges the character of the business conducted by the plaintiffs, the relation held to them by Scott, the knowledge of these facts by the defendants, and that with such knowledge the defendants had conspired and confederated with Scott, for the purpose of wronging and defrauding the plaintiffs out of these boxes of tin, and had procured Scott to fraudulently remove them from the warehouse at divers times within the four years last past, and, as a consideration therefor, had paid him for said property a sum of money greatly below its market value,…