Hennessey v. Barnett

This was an action for the recovery of specific personal *255property, instituted by the appellee as plaintiff before a justice of the peace. There were no written pleadings, outside of the plaintiff’s affidavit in replevin, upon which summons and a writ issued, but the material facts upon which the suit was based as claimed by plaintiff, we gather from her testimony. She claims to have purchased at the store of defendant a folding bed, represented by defendant to be new and sound in every respect, at the agreed price of f¡35.00, 110.00 to be paid in cash, and the remainder in five several…