Wellman v. Wickerman

This was action in the Ralls county Circuit Court for the possession of a mare. The facts are few and simple, and appear from the record to be these: in the fall of 1864 the plaintiff’s mare was taken or pressed into the service of the United States by soldiers, and used by the government. At the time the maro was taken plaintiff was requested to go to Hannibal and get a receipt for her. This, it seems, he never did. The mare was afterward turned over to Joel K. Shaw, a quartermaster in the army of the United States, appointed and commissioned by the President. , While the mare was in the…