Dragoo v. Cooper
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 19 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL FROM NELSON CIRCUIT COURT. CITED Revised Statutes, chap. 63, sec. 2, art. 3. Revised Statutes, chap. 63, sec. 9, art. 4. Plowden, 333, Stowell v. Zonch.
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Case 19 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL FROM NELSON CIRCUIT COURT. CITED Revised Statutes, chap. 63, sec. 2, art. 3. Revised Statutes, chap. 63, sec. 9, art. 4. Plowden, 333, Stowell v. Zonch. M. & Yerg. 361, Cocke & Jack v. McGinnis. 2 Wheat. 29, Melver v. Ragan. 2 Munf. 511, Callis v. Waddy. 3 Murph. 115, Hamilton v. Smith. 9 How. 529. 1 Salk. 210. 2 Bibb, 207, Graves v. Graves. 5 Litt. 281, Stanley v. Earl. 2 Kent’s Commentaries, 6th ed., 478. 1 Lord Raym. 523, Medina v. Stoughton. 7 Bush, 231, Buffington v. Ulen. 20 Johns. 33, Troup v. Smith. 20 Johns. 196, Swett v. Colgate, &c. CITED 2…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE LINDSAY
delivered juie opinion oe the court.
This action was instituted by Cooper to recover from Dragoo a horse that had been stolen from the former on the 22d day of January, 1865. It is agreed that in May, 1865, a party in possession of the horse sold him to one W. R. Lewis, and that in November, 1867, Lewis sold and delivered him to Dragoo, who kept him up to the 28th of September, 1871, when the action for his recovery was commenced.
It is further agreed that Cooper lived in Breckinridge County, Ky., and that both Lewis and Dragoo resided in Nelson County, eighty miles distant from…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Stanley v. EarlCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1824
- Buffington v. UlenCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1870
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