Case Name: Griffin vs. Hedrick
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1832-04-28
Citations: 7 J.J. Marsh. 280
Docket Number: 
Parties: Griffin vs. Hedrick.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 30
Pages: 280–280

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.