Teal v. Bilby

These are separate actions brought by the same plaintiffs against the same defendant in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western- District of Missouri.

The first was an action of replevin, under which the plaintiffs got possession of 1232 head of cattle, and the second was an action to recover damages for a failure on the part of defendant to fulfil a contract of agistment with regard to the same cattle. As the rights of the parties depended upon the same contract, and as the testimony in each case ivas pertinent in the other, the court very properly ordered their consolidation…