Williams v. Williams
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Clay Circuit Court, Western District; W. J. Driver, Judge; STATEMENT by the court. This is a suit by Cinda Williams and Ed Williams against Susie Williams to recover the possession of a team of mules valued at five hundred dollars. Cinda Williams for herself testified substantially as follows: I am the owner of the mules in controversy.
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Appeal from Clay Circuit Court, Western District; W. J. Driver, Judge; STATEMENT by the court. This is a suit by Cinda Williams and Ed Williams against Susie Williams to recover the possession of a team of mules valued at five hundred dollars. Cinda Williams for herself testified substantially as follows: I am the owner of the mules in controversy. In the year 1906 I purchased two mules from J. M. Hawks, and later on swapped these two mules, with their harness, for the mules in controversy, and gave twenty dollars in exchange. My husband had been dead about a year before I purchased the…
1Opinion of the Court
Hart, J.,
(after stating the facts). Cinda Williams and Ed Williams were the plaintiffs in this action, and the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiffs. It is now contended by counsel for defendant that, under the undisputed evidence, Ed Williams had no interest in the mules, and that he and Cinda Williams could not maintain a joint action for them. In this connection it may be stated that no objection was made to the instructions given by the court. If the jury believed the testimony of the plaintiffs, the mules belonged to Mrs. Cinda Williams, one of the plaintiffs, and it was immaterial…
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