Bender v. Belknap

The plaintiff alleges that in his absence one James F. Ainsley took possession of his plantation, cotton and other property in the parish of Caddo, and on the twenty-seventh of August, 1863, sold to one J. Dryfus fifty bales of said cotton, giving his written obligation to deliver the same to said Dryfus or any holder of said instrument, at Shreveport, when called on so to do, and in the meantime to keep the possession thereof; that at a subsequent period said written contract got into possession of the defendant, who claimed it as his property, and by means thereof succeeded in getting…