Davis v. Davis

The plaintiff, as the administrator of Jeremiah Brooks, commenced a suit against the defendant before a justice of the peace, and filed a statement of his cause of action, setting forth in substance that the defendant, on, &c., “swapped” a certain bay horse to said Brooks, and then and there delivered the said horse to him; that afterwards, to wit, &c., the defendant took the horse into his possession without the consent of the plaintiff, and converted him to his own use, &c.; to the plaintiff’s damage $50.00. The defendant pleaded seven pleas, six of which were to the merits; the seventh was…