Wilks v. Kreis

CONNER, Chief Justice.

Appellee instituted this suit alleging that he was the owner and possessed of one hundred and twenty head of mules of the' value of sixty dollars per head and of the aggregate value of seven thousand three hundred and twenty dollars, which the defendant, G. W. Wilks, had converted to his own use.

Defendant, in answer, claimed the mules under a contract of sale set up by him,. to the effect that defendant was to pay for the mules -at the price per head stated in the plaintiff’s petition by conveying to the plaintiff certain land of the value of four thousand eight hundred…