Gildas v. Crosby

The defendant brought replevin in justice’s court for one set of Appleton’s American Cyclopedia, con.sisting of seventeen volumes.

*415She claimed that she gave the property to plaintiff as security for rent due from her to him; that he agreed to keep the books, subject to redemption by her, until the twenty-second day of March, 1885. She testified that she •called upon him March 19, prepared to pay the rent, and demanded the books. He told her that he had sold the books to James A. Roys, and did not have them. He ■claimed that the time had expired in which she was to redeem them. He sold and…