Blake v. Graves
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Wapello District Court. Action to recover tlie value of a horse, taken by defendants under an attachment as the property of the plaintiff’s son. The cause was tried to a jury, and there was a verdict and judgment for defendants. Plaintiff appeals. The further facts will be found stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
1. Pleadings: justice’s court. I. The cause was originally commenced before a justice of the peace. The defendants answered, denying plaintiff’s ownership of the horse, and &U other allegations of the notice, and averring tb e ownership to be in the plaintiff’s son, and the rightful seizure of the horse by virtue of an attachment against him; and then further plead, orally, “that the claim of plaintiff to said property is a fraud.” The plaintiff filed a reply in general denial.
The plaintiff, on the trial, objected to the admission of certain testimony and the giving of certain instructions,…
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