Rabb v. Pillot

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

Plaintiff brought this action to recover a running horse from the defendant; also, for damages growing out of defendant’s illegal seizure and possession and for the fee of his attorney in the ease.

Plaintiff sets forth in his petition that he bought this horse, in 1898, from E. J. Ransom. lie charges, that the defendant, Pillot, pretended that Ransom, his (plaintiff’s) vendor, was indebted to him, had the horse seized and sold while it was in Chicago in 1898, and that he, Pillot, became the adjudicatee of the horse at the sale, although he,…