Sutherland v. Carter

Plaintiff brought replevin for a yoke of cattle which defendant held under an arrangement for their purchase, which the court below held void under the Statute of Frauds. It is not necessary to go into, all the facts, as the case was left to the jury under instructions upon defendant’s hypothesis, and ruled against him.

Upon this view, which the testimony seems to bear out, defendant was engaged in doing work on the land of plaintiff’s wife, and needed a yoke of -oxen. Plaintiff let him have the cattle, on the understanding that defendant should own them as soon as he had done a sufficient…