Hays v. Berry

As the value of the horse in controversy is under one hundred dollars, the questions involved are presented in the certificate of the trial judge. These may be stated rather than set out in detail. It appears that the plaintiff executed a lease of his farm for three years, beginning March 1, 1894, to Berry, who took possession thereunder, and used six or eight horses on the premises. In 1895 he traded one of these to Simmons for the black horse in controversy, which he also kept and used on the farm.- In 1896 Berry exchanged it with Frost for another. Frost traded this black horse to the…