Tindall v. Wasson

The appellant instituted this action to recover certain personal property described in the complaint as “two brown female mules.” The appellee answered in four paragraphs, and the question which this appeal presents is, whether the second paragraph of the answer stated facts sufficient to constitute a defence.

The paragraph of the answer referred to contains, in substance, these allegations : That the only claim or right of the plaintiff to the property in controversy is founded upon a chattel mortgage, executed by one Gore on the 7th dav of January, 1871; that the property was described in…