Burdick v. Michael

CAMPBELL, J:

This was an action of trover, involving the ownership of certain live-stock, which plaintiff claimed as having been mortgaged to him by one John J. Crandall, and which defendant claimed by purchase from Gilbert G. Crandall. The course which the case took renders it unnecessary to refer to any facts except those bearing on the dispute concerning Gilbert G. Crandall’s relations to plaintiff. Burdick introduced testimony tending to show that he left such property as he obtained a right in through John J. Crandall, on *247the farm wliicb the latter had before occupied, in charge of…