Albright v. Peters

Herman A. Peters brought replevin before a justice of the peace to recover eight head of cattle detained by the defendant David Albright. The McCormick Harvesting Machine Company intervened, and it was made a party defendant, claiming the property under a chattel mortgage executed by one George Dublin, plaintiff’s grantor. Peters had a judgment before the justice, and the defendants prosecuted an appeal to the district court, where a verdict was returned for plaintiff, the jury assessing his damages for the wrongful detention of the property at $10. The defendants filed separate motions for a…