Hosack v. Weaver

Replevin for a grey stallion. Plea, property in defendant.

The plaintiff shewed his property in evidence by three witnesses, and that in the month of December 1793, the stallion was either lost or stolen out of his wagon in an inn yard in Winchester, in Maryland. Afterwards, in January 1794, the plaintiff discovered him in the defendant’s possession in Philadelphia, claimed him, but the defendant refused to deliver him up.

The defendant founded his claim on a purchase or exchange, made between him and one Patrick Keating in the horse market in this city, bona fide and for a full consideration,…