Compton v. Fleming

Fleming sued Compton in replevin for detaining two horses. Pleas, 1. Non detinet; 2. Property in the defendant; 3. Property in one Robert II. Brickell. Replications to the second and third pleas, property in the plaintiff. On the trial, the plaintiff proved that he was the assignee, under the bankrupt law, of one M‘Makin, who had been declared a bankrupt, and that, before the commencement of the suit, said M‘Makin was the owner of the property described in the declaration. The defendant then offered to prove that M‘Makin had stated, at different times, before his application for the benefit…