Switzer v. Miller

Elizabeth Switzer and her husband, David A. Switzer, sued Henry Miller and Avery Griffith, in the court below, for unlawfully taking and converting to their own use seven tons of hay, two hundred and fifty bushels of corn and twenty-five .bushels of clover seed, #all of the value of three hundred dollars, and the prop*562erty of the said Elizabeth. The alleged time of the taking and conversion was the 6th day of January, 1875.

The defendants answéred in two paragraphs:

1. The general denial.

2. A former adjudication, as to the item of hay, in a suit between the same parties, at the October term,…