McKercher v. Curtis

Graves, J.:

Curtis & Proper sued McKercher for refusing to deliver a pair of steers they claimed to have bought of him in July, 1873.

The action was instituted before a justice, and taken by appeal to the circuit court.

Defendants in error finally recovered four dollars and forty-nine cents, and the case is brought here on writ of error.

They were buying stock at Jonesville to be shipped east.

They made two claims: First, that they bought the steers at seventy-seven dollars and fifty cents and paid ten dollars down, and that delivery was to be made at Jonesville on August 16, 1873, when they were…