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lies the Tort.
I admit that not restoring the goods upon demand, is evidence of conversion to go to a Jury, but if they find that there was no conversion, Judgemt must be for the Defendant.
Isaac v. Clerk 2 Bulstrode 314.
& S. C. in Moore 8

In that case (2 Bulstr: 312) “if said Sir Edward Coke (Chief Justice) it appears that the goods were kept for the owner, the refusal to deliver till it shod app: who was the owner, is no evidence of conversion.
There is a case in Carthew 104, which I contend to be