Houghton v. Ross

In this ease Houghton sued Boss for the use of two teams which Boss bought of Gordon & Co., but which plaintiff claimed as his own. One was a team of black ponies which plaintiff insisted were given him for a pair of gray mares disposed of in Canada for a much less sum than the ponies were worth. The other team he claimed to have bought from a vessel. As it was intimated on the hearing that this second team had been put out of the case by a reduction of the verdict, we need not look beyond so much ■of the record as refers to the others.

In this, as in the replevin case, plaintiff’s testimony…