Holcomb v. Davis

This was an action of replevin, brought hy appellee before a justice of the peace in Livingston county, to recover the possession of two cows. A trial was had before the justice, resulting in a verdict and judgment in favor of plaintiff, from which an appeal was prosecuted to the circuit court of that county, where a trial was had, with a like result, and the case is brought to this court by appeal, and a reversal is urged upon the errors assigned.

On the trial in the court below, it appeared that appellant took up and impounded the animals under the act of March 7, 1867 (Sess. Laws, 97), and…