Mears v. Cornwall

The plaintiff brought suit in the circuit court for the county of Kalamazoo in. trover for a span of horses. The defendants claimed that the horses belonged to one William Cornwall, and were levied upon for his debt to Valentine Cornwall by the defendant Wise, who was a- constable, under a writ of attachment issued out of a justice’s court. The verdict of the jury was in favor of the defendants. The court refused a new trial, and entered judgment upon the verdict.

The undisputed facts are that at the time the horses were taken by Wise they were in possession of the plaintiff, who claimed…