Graves v. . Cameron

Clare, O. J.

Tbe plaintiff beld a duly registered cbattel mortgage upon certain personal property of one D. M. Sutton, including two mules. Defendant purchased one of these mules, and this action was begun March, 1910, against him for the conversion of the mule. At December Term, 1910, no answer *550having been filed, judgment was taken by default and inquiry. At September Term, 1912, when the inquiry was executed before the jury, the plaintiff tendered the evidence of K. R. Hoyle and C. G-. Petty to prove that in September, 1910, said Sutton then being in jail for disposing of the property, an…