Dawson v. Buford
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Carroll Circuit Court. ActioN to recover for the wrongful taking and conversion of a horse. The case was dismissed as to B. D. Buford & Co., and prosecuted against the other defendant alone, and a judgment upon a verdict was rendered against him, from which he appeals to this court.
1Opinion of the CourtBecK, J.
I. The case was tried upon an amended petition claiming to recover against Barber alone for the taking and conversion of the horse, the action being dismissed as to Buford & Oo. The defendant, in his answer, denies the alie-*128gations of the petition, and as a defense pleads that he is an attorney at law, and that whatever connection he had with the taking of the horse was as an attorney for Buford & Co., and that the property was seized by the United States mar-"* shall upon an attachment issued in a case brought by Buford & Co. against John B. Cook. The amount being less than $100, the case is…
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