Hoy v. Griffin

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hutchison, J.:

This is an action in replevin by the holder of a mortgage on cattle brought against the mortgagor and the owners of the land on which the cattle were pastured, the latter claiming an agister’s lien. The owner of the cattle admitted the mortgage indebtedness and offered to confess judgment.

The issue raised by the pleadings was the existence of an agister’s lien of $160 — the complication arising from the claim of the landowners that the mortgagor was their agent in caring for the pasture and for these and other cattle therein. A further…