Terryll v. Bailey

Action in replevin. As a bar to the-action the answer alleged that an action for the same cause by this plaintiff against this defendant was commenced before a justice of the peace; that judgment therein was rendered on the merits by the justice in favor of plaintiff, awarding the property to him; that defendant appealed from the judgment to the district court on questions of law alone; that in the district court judgment was rendered reversing the judgment of the justice, and adjudging “that said property in said judgment mentioned and described be returned to the defendant, and, in case…