Jakway v. Rivers

Defendant in error, as plaintiff, instituted an action in replevin before a justice of the peace against plaintiff in error, as defendant, to recover the possession of a team, wagon, harness and log-chain. What the outcome of the case was before the justice of the peace does not appear. The case wás appealed to the county court, where it was tried before the court, de novo, without the intervention of a jury, with the result that judgment was rendered in favor of plaintiff, adjudging him to be the owner and entitled to the possession of the property in controversy, and that its value was the…