Supreme Judicial Court of Maine October 7, 1939 (Jordan v. Gaines)

Hudson, J.

Trover to recover damages for the alleged conversion of six cows. The defendant, a State Humane agent and an agent of the Pine Tree Humane Society, pleaded the general issue and, by way of brief statement, that “she was justified in taking the chattels ... by virtue of the Revised Statutes of the State of Maine and acts amendatory thereto.