Tinkler v. Cox

This was an action of replevin for a horse, originally commenced before a justice of the peace of Marion county, by Mary Cox, against John Tinkler, and taken by appeal by the defendant to the circuit court of that county. In that court the plaintiff recovered a judgment, to reverse which the defendant appeals.

It is established by the testimony, that the plaintiff, in 1867, then and yet a married woman, purchased the horse with "her own means, in the State of Indiana, and removed with her husband, Alfred Cox, to this State, with the property in question. Her husband mortgaged the horse to the…