Case ID: ky_30/html/0280-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Chief Justice Ropertson", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Griffin vs. Hedrick.
    Case 92.
    Error to the Pulaski Circuit; Brid&es, Judge.
    
      Promise.
    
    Evidence of conversion does not prove a contract to return.
    April 28.
   Chief Justice Ropertson

delivered Ihe Oninion of the Court.

We are of opinion that the evidence in this cause does not establish a contract of any kind between the plaintiff and defendant. It may shew that Griffin converted a clock owned by Hedrick, but it does not conduce to prove a promise to restore the clock upon demand. The court therefore, erred in entertaining jurisdiction of the cause: without any instruction to the jury, it would have been proper for the coiut to dismiss the whole proceedings for want of jurisdiction; II. J. J. Marshall’s Reports, 29.

Judgment reversed, and cause remanded for a new trial.