Patton v. Joliff
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Marion County. Action by John Patton against M. A. Joliff to recover possession of personal property. Defendant bad judgment in tbe intermediate court, and it was affirmed by the circuit court, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
McWhoetek, Judge :
In tbe fall of 1893 John Patton was at Fairmont, and broke an attachment to a wheel of his sulky. F. N. Hays wanted the sulky to go to Cumberland, Md., to a fair, and in consideration of the use of it a few days for that purpose he repaired the attachment, and was to return the sulky to Patton, but, instead of doing so, Hays pledged the sulky to M. A. Joliff for a loan of forty dollars, and placed him in possession of it. Patton, learning that Joliff had his sulky, went to see him, and found him so in possession. Joliff told Patton that he had loaned Hays forty dollars, and…
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