Lewis v. Gibson

This is an action of trover for a horse, in which two legal questions arise upon the charge of the Court upon which a reversal is asked by the plaintiff who failed below. First, as to the right of property in the plaintiff the jury were instructed to this effect, that if the horse belonged to one who had committed a felony, and he sold him with the intent and purpose of evading any pecuniary liability that might devolve on him in consequence of his crime, and the plaintiff concurred in that object and purpose, he would get no title, but that the transaction would he fraudulent and void.

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