Reynolds v. Reynolds
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment, entered upon a verdict in the defendant’s favor rendered at the Niagara Circuit, and from an order of the trial court denying the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial. The action was replevin for a quantity of wheat. The defense interposed by the defendants was that the wheat was taken under an agreement for the working by the defendant John Reynolds of certain farms owned by the plaintiff.
1Opinion of the Court
Barker, P. J.:
In this action the plaintiff seeks to establish his title to a quantity of wheat grown and prepared for market on his own farm and to regain the possession thereof. The defendant denies the plaintiff’s title and claims to be the owner thereof by virtue of the terms of a written contract between himself and the plaintiff for the working of the. said farm on shares. No other issue than the one of title to the property was litigated on the trial, and all the rulings to which the plaintiff excepted relate to that question. In March, 1885, the pariies made an agreement by the terms…
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