Harding v. Pratt

On the 10th day of September, 1901, Clara A. Harding, the respondent, seized twenty-eight head of cattle belonging to the appellant, John H. Pratt. On the following day she filed a petition with a justice of the peace of the town of Gaines, Orleans county, setting forth, among other things, that said twenty-eight head of cattle, which she fully described, were strays, and had entered upon premises occupied by petitioner in said town, and asked that a precept be issued requiring the owner of the cattle to show cause “ why said cattle should not be sold and the proceeds of such sale applied…