Yates v. Smith

This was an action of replevin commenced by appellants against a'ppellee, at the September term, 1880, of the Greene Circuit Court, to recover the possession of a lot of wheat alleged to be unlawfully detained by appellee from them.

The defendant below pleaded first, property in himself, and second, property in one John R. Reach.

A trial of the cause resulted in a judgment in favor of the defendant, from which appellants appeal to this court.

There is but little or no dispute about the main facts in the ■ case.

The wheat in controversy was sowed in September, 1879, and harvested in June, 1880, by…