Hamilton v. Langley

Plaintiff recovered in replevin against defendant, before a justice and .on appeal, for her unlawful detention of personal property, which she seized under claim for rent and refused to restore without payment of certain alleged charges. She now brings error to this Court on exceptions to the charge, which was in favor of plaintiff’s recovery.

It appears from the record that plaintiff was her tenant, and in arrear for some rent. On the 21st of October, 1882, at some time, which is only characterized in the record as before sunset, while his place of business was closed, and he absent,…