Pierce v. Gibson

-This was an action of replevin commenced on the 8th of May 1844, by Edmund T. H. Gibson against Martin L. Pierce.

The declaration contains two counts. The first states that the defendant, on, &c., at, &c., wrongfully took the goods and chattels, viz., 375 barrels of mess pork and 221 barrels of prime pork, of the plaintiff’s, of the value of 3,840 dollars, and unlawfully detained the same. The second count is for unlawfully detaining the same quantity of other pork of the plaintiff’s, of the same value.

The defendant pleaded non cepit to the first count, and non detinet to the second. He also…