Day v. DeJonge

Plaintiff sued defendants in .replevin for. a quantity of lumber. He based the proof of his claim chiefly on a decree of the circuit court for the county of Ottawa in the suit of Day v. Cole, and a cross-bill therein, which was appealed to this Court, and which was reversed in some important particulars affecting the rights of the parties in this case.1

The court below held it was not competent to show that the case was appealed in bar of any rights under the original decree, and held that this decree, although appealed from, was nevertheless in full force, and not suspended or superseded.

This…