Cummings v. Ellis

This is an action of replevin wbicb was instituted before a justice of tbe peace, proceeded tbence by appeal to tbe circuit court and from there here. Tbe property involved is two yearling mules belonging to plaintiff, and taken up by defendant in bis field while running at large on December 25, 1906. He at once published notices describing tbe property, and' stating if the owner did not come forward and claim and prove it. before tbe expiration of thirty days from the date of the notice, to-wit, December 26, 1906, it would be posted before some justice of the peace in Taney county, Missouri.…