Williams v. Deen

NEILL, Associate Justice.

This suit was instituted in the Justice Court of precinct number 1 of Wilson County, by the appellee, for the value of 16 head of cattle, alleged to have been driven by the appellant from appellee’s pasture and converted to his own use, and for damages. The alleged value of the cattle is §96, and the damages for driving them from the pasture is laid at §50.

The appellant answered, that he owed appellee nothing on account of cattle or otherwise; and especially, that the only cattle he ever possessed which appellee at any time had any right to were delivered to appellant…