Kime v. Dale

Appellant was a grain and stock buyer at Emington, in Livingston county, where he had two cribs. Appellee was a resident of Pennsylvania, but owned a large body of land in the neighborhood, in charge of one John Ferguson, as his agent, and leased in parcels to different tenants. He brought this suit before a justice of the peace to recover damages for the detention of seventy-five bushels and twenty-five pounds of corn stored in one of these cribs, and on appeal to the circuit court obtained a verdict for $20, upon which, after a motion for new trial overruled, judgment was entered. Defendant…