Stone v. Spencer

Plaintiffs, husband and wife, sued Spencer in the circuit court of Buchanan county for the recovery of the following specific personal property, viz : one cream-colored mare, one top side-spring buggy and one set of *357harness. The defendant’s answer was a denial that plaintiffs owned of were entitled to the possession of the property, and on a trial he obtained a judgment, from which plaintiffs have appealed

Tele Stone, the wife, testified that she purchased the property from Isaac Samuels at her husband’s store in St. Joseph on Saturday afternoon, September 14th, 1878, and paid the purchase…