Legal Opinion

Clendenning v. Guise

Wyoming Supreme Court

Decided December 17, 1898PublishedCited by 7 opinions

ERROR .to the District Court. Sweetwater County, Hon. Jesse Knight, Judge. Replevin brought by H. M. Clendenning against Frank Guise, before a justice of the peace. Judgment was rendered for plaintiff for the possession of the property, and ten (10) dollars damages for its detention, and costs of suit.

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ERROR .to the District Court. Sweetwater County, Hon. Jesse Knight, Judge. Replevin brought by H. M. Clendenning against Frank Guise, before a justice of the peace. Judgment was rendered for plaintiff for the possession of the property, and ten (10) dollars damages for its detention, and costs of suit. Defendant took the case to the district court by petition in error, where the judgment was reversed for want of jurisdiction in the justice, and thp costs of both courts adjudged against the original plaintiff. The latter prosecuted error. The material facts are stated in the opinion. Since the…

1Opinion of the Court

Pottee, Chief Justice.

This was an action in replevin originally brought before a justice of the peace for the recovery of a certain bicycle. Judgment having been rendered for the plaintiff the defendant filed his petition in error in the district court seeking a reversal of the judgment upon three grounds; viz: (1) Error of the justice in overruling the exceptions of the defendant to plaintiff’s undertaking; (2) error in ' assessing damages against defendant; and (3) error in finding and rendering judgment against the defendant.

In the district court, the cause being heard upon the petition in…

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2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Kent v. Board of CommissionersSupreme Court of Kansas · 1889
  2. State v. ClearySupreme Court of Kansas · 1888
  3. Detroit Safe Co. v. KellyWisconsin Supreme Court · 1890
  4. Commercial State Bank v. KetchamNebraska Supreme Court · 1895
  5. Kinnear v. FlandersSupreme Court of Colorado · 1891

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3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Jeff Lokey v. Mike IrwinWyoming Supreme Court · 2016
  2. White v. VeitchWyoming Supreme Court · 1921
  3. Woodworth v. MaddoxSupreme Court of Kansas · 1924
  4. Walton v. SpinnerWyoming Supreme Court · 1907
  5. Deschenes v. Beall, Beall ReevesWyoming Supreme Court · 1945

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