Norton v. Rockey

Rockey sued Norton in trover for the conversion of a horse. No question appears to have been made on the trial that Rockey owned the horse, but Norton claimed to have impounded him damage feasant, and he also insisted that the right to bring suit had been cut off by a sale of the horse on an execution against Rockey, which was levied subsequent to the impounding.

The evidence tended to show without dispute that Norton found the horse in his corn-field doing damage, and that he took him and put him into his barn. The date when this *462•occurred is not shown. The horse was taken up towards night,…