Windham v. Hydrick

This is an action of detinue to recover an old, worn-out mower, estimated to be worth from $35 to $50. The suit, during the last four years, has been in and through the justice court, the circuit court, and the Court of Appeals, and has at last reached this court; and we are now asked to pass upon every question of fact and of law which the ingenuity of counsel could raise in the justice or in the circuit court. But for the fact that the witnesses are not before us, the trial is as much de novo here, as it was in the circuit court. There never has been involved any intricate or doubtful…