Logan v. Marquess

This case went off in the court below upon a question of jurisdiction. The appellant commenced in the court below an action to recover the possession of a colt, which it is alleged was unlawfully detained by the appellee. The appellee by his answer sought to bring the case within the provision of the eighteenth, section of the estray law. 1 G. & H. 325. It was alleged that the colt in question was an estray and had been ta'ken up, and all the steps which had been taken were described with particularity. To this paragraph a demurrer was overruled. Issue, trial by jury, verdict for appellee.…