Turner v. Richardson

Appellee brought suit in replevin against appellant before a justice of the peace in Boas Township in Lawrence County to recover possession of a red Irish setter bitch. The case found its way by appeal to the eastern district of the circuit court of said county, where it was tried to a jury under proper instructions, resulting in a verdict and judgment against appellant, from which is this appeal.

According to the evidence introduced by appellant, the bitch in controversy was given to him when she was about nine months old by Everett Webb, who had bought her early in December, 1931, from Tom…