Matthews v. Redwine
Mississippi Supreme Court
In error from the circuit court of La Fayette county; Hon. Hugh R. Miller, judge. This was a suit instituted in the circuit, court of La Fayette county, by S. B. Redwine against Matthews and Addington, to recover the value of a horse which had been sold by Matthews, as constable, under an execution issued on a judgment rendered in the justices’ court in favor of Addington against Redwine.
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In error from the circuit court of La Fayette county; Hon. Hugh R. Miller, judge. This was a suit instituted in the circuit, court of La Fayette county, by S. B. Redwine against Matthews and Addington, to recover the value of a horse which had been sold by Matthews, as constable, under an execution issued on a judgment rendered in the justices’ court in favor of Addington against Redwine. The defendant in error, who was the plaintiff in-the court below, proved that at the time of the levy on the horse and sale by the officer, that he (Redwine) had no other horse but that one, and after the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice FisheR
This was an action in the circuit court of La Fayette county, by the defendant in error against the plaintiffs in error, to recover the value of a certain horse, which the defendant in error alleges was exempt by law from execution, and which was by the plaintiffs in error levied on and sold, by virtue of an execution against the defendant in error.
The evidence fully sustains the verdict of the jury, which *101was for the plaintiff below. The only question seriously urged is, that the evidence does not sufficiently show that the horse was a plough horse. The court instructed the jury that they…
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