Landis v. McCreary & Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Hurt

Affirming.

This was a suit in the Bourbon Circuit Court brought by the appellees, McCreary & Co., a partnership, at Knoxville, Tennessee, against the appellant, E. E. Landis, in which the appellees sought to recover of the appellant the sum of $4,629.53, the alleged value of twenty-one mules and other items composing the outfit of a contractor for building roads, and the value of the use of the outfit from December 9th, 1911, until June 15th, 1912. The appellees claimed, in their petition in equity, that the outfit had been put into the possession of the…