Case v. Ploutz

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered by a Justice’s Court upon the verdict of a jury in favor of the plaintiff and against the defendants. The plaintiff brought action against these defendants claiming that they had taken certain young cattle belonging to the plaintiff and converted them to their own use. The plaintiff’s claim was that, by virtue of a certain written contract made by the plaintiff and one Fritz Ploutz, he retained the title to the animals, The defendant William Ploutz claimed the right to take the animals under a chattel mortgage alleged to have been given to him by his…