Bristol v. Braidwood

Christiancy, Ch. J.

This was an action of replevin brought by Braidwood against Bristol in the circuit court for the county of Lapeer, for a pair of colts which the former bad sold or traded to the latter for forty dollars in cash and a mortgage and accompanying note of one Henderson, given not long before to one Goetchius, for four hundred dollars at ten per cent, interest, upon which two hundred and fifty dollars had been paid and endorsed. This mortgage tbe defendant (below) represented to tbe plaintiff to be “'as good as tbe wheat,” “as good as .the money to any one who did not want to use…