Dunbar Et Ux. v. Godbout

This is an action in which the plaintiffs seek to recover for the wrongful conversion of certain cattle. The defendants filed a plea called in the record an avowry, although incorrectly, because the action is not replevin, [Gould on Pleading (4th ed., eh. IV, § 104)], which alleged in'substance that the cattle were found damage feasant in the enclosure of the defendants Godbout, in the town of Walden; that they took the animals and inquired of the selectmen of the town whether there was a pound therein,, and were informed that Fred Allen and H. L. Gilman were the poundkeepers; that they…