Pearce v. Vittum

This is an action of replevin, brought in the circuit court of Fulton county by the appellant, against the appellee, to recover six head of horses. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the- appellee, upon which, after overruling a motion for a new trial and in arrest of judgment, the court rendered judgment and awarded a return of the property, and the appellant has brought the case, by appeal, directly to this court.

The horses in question had been in possession of the appellee and had been kept and cared for by him upon his farm for a number of years, and his contention is that he has a…