Fairbanks Morse & Co. v. Dale & Co.

Appellee, a mercantile company at Prentiss in Jefferson -Davis county, brought this action of replevin in a court of a justice of the peace of that county against the Mississippi Central Railroad Company to recover a pair of scales. At the trial appellant Fairbanks Morse & Company intervened and claimed title and right of possession to the scales. By agreement the railroad company was eliminated from the case and Fairbanks Morse & Company substituted as defendant. The trial resulted in a judgment for appellee for the scales and damages in the sum of one hundred fifteen dollars and costs…