Lawcock v. United States Trotting Ass'n

Defendant, Matthew Long, appeals from a declaratory judgment, entered after a nonjury trial, in which the court found and declared that “the plaintiff Gladys Lawcock is the sole and exclusive owner of the horse lone’s Boy.” Defendant contends that plaintiff failed to prove the authority of an alleged agent to sell the horse.

Plaintiff, Gladys Lawcock, defendant, Matthew Long, and defendant’s alleged agent, Jimmy Cruise, all own, train and race horses. In October, 1962, plaintiff met Cruise in California and asked him if he had a horse which she could race. Cruise told her about lone’s Boy, a…