Finklea v. Brunson

RICE, Judge.

As appellant’s counsel states in his brief filed here: “This was a detinue suit brought by the appellee against the appellant to recover two black mare mules, which the ap pellee claimed to have a mortgage upon, which was past due, and which was executed by one J. C. Miller. The appellant’s plea was to the effect that he was not in possession of the mules at the time the suit was brought. So the question, as we take it, in the case was as to whether the appellant was in possession of the property involved at the time that the suit was commenced.”

The trial and proceedings were…