McCoy v. Reck

Eeplevin commenced before a justice of the peace, by the appellee, against the appellant, to recover two mules.

The complaint, which is quite informal, states that the plaintiff traded the mules, to the defendant for two horses, alleges that the' defendant fraudulently represented the horses to be sound, knowing that they were unsound and diseased with stiffness, broken wind, and thrumps, and alleges that they are worthless. The plaintiff therefore avers that he is the owner and entitled to the possession of the mules, of which the defendant has possession without right, and which he…