Hampton v. Trout

TITUS, Judge.

Plaintiffs have appealed from a judgment entered on jury verdicts finding the issues in favor of defendant on both counts of a replevin petition for possession of a set of John Deere combine tracks, and damages.1

It is undisputed that the tracks were originally sold by a farm implement dealer in November 1972 and ever since that time had been in defendant’s possession. Plaintiffs’ theory was that the combine tracks (which they valued at $2000-$2500) were purchased from the dealer by Ora Trout, defendant’s 77-year-old father; that on February 7, 1974, Ora sold the tracks to…