Garner v. Broom

Anderson, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court..

The appellee brought this actipn of replevin in the court of a justice of the peace of Marion county to recover of appellant a light bay mare of the value of fifty dollars. Appellant pleaded not guilty, and gave notice that on the trial he would claim against appellee actual and punitive damages in the sum of one hundred eighty-five dollars for the wrongful suing out of the writ of replevin. There was a trial, resulting in a judgment in appellee’s favor, from which judgment appellant appealed to the circuit court, where there was a trial de…