Chissom v. Hawkins

This was an action of replevin by the ap *317pellee against the appellants for one thousand seven hundred bushels of corn. The complaint charges that the defendants unlawfully, and without right, detain from the possession of the plaintiff one thousand seven hundred bushels of com in the crib now upon land heretofore owned by said James Hawkins, Eli Hawkins, and William Hawkins, and farmed during the season of 1856 by one Lewis Wright, which corn is the property of the plaintiff, and to the possession of which he is lawfully entitled, &e.

The defendants answered — 1. By a general denial; 2. That…