Carpenter v. Rodgers

The parties in this case, on the second day of January, 1885, traded horses.

The plaintiff gave his team, and an order on Mr. Tuttle, of Niles, for five dollars, for the team of defendant.

The team obtained by the plaintiff proved to be of little value, unsound, and, as plaintiff claimed, not as represented; and that the defendant cheated and defrauded him out of his property by taking advantage of his inability, when he was drunk, in making the trade ; and, claiming a rescission of the contract under which the trade was made, he brought replevin to obtain the team he let the defendant have on…