Sharp v. Benoist

This is a petition in the nature of a bill in equity by which the plaintiff seeks to establish title in a trotting mare, of one half interest in which he claims he has been deprived by a pretended sale of the mare from one Hathaway to the defendant. In June, 1876, the plaintiff, being then the owner of the mare, sold one half interest in her to Hathaway, and it was then agreed between Hathaway and the plaintiff that the former should take charge of the mare and train her, and that the two should share in her expenses and earnings. Hathaway took the mare, and she was carried to various fairs.…