McMahill v. Walker

The appellant’s statement of the case is adopted as correct. It is as follows:

“This action was instituted in a justice of the peace court to recover the possession of a horse, and taken by appeal to the Louisiana court of common pleas, where a verdict was given for the defendant, from which an appeal has been taken to this court.

“Plaintiff, to sustain the issues on his part, introduced evidence tending to show that he had loaned the defendant, who was his nephew, and was a tenant of the plaintiff, the horse here in dispute; that he made demand on the defendant, in June or July, that he return…