King v. Dobbs

This was an action in a justice’s court for the recovery of the sum of $62.50. The plaintiff had paid to the defendant a like sum as the purchase-money of a cow, a part of which was paid on delivery of the property, and the remainder “ a -few days ” thereafter. It indisputably appears in the evidence that the transaction was consummated by the plaintiff in his own name, but that he was really an agent for his. wife, and that all of the money paid belonged to her. The conclusion is demanded also that the property was possessed of serious defects. There is some evidence, though very slight, as…