McCarty v. Gray

KEY, O. J.

R. B. McCarty brought this suit against D. F. Gray and Barney Tread-way. The plaintiff alleged in his petition that the defendant Gray executed and delivered to him certain promissory notes, secured by a chattel mortgage executed by Gray upon two mules. It was also alleged in his petition that the defendant Treadway was in possession of the mules, asserting some sort of title thereto. The defendant Treadway filed an answer, which included a general denial and a special plea alleging that he had bought the mules from his co-defendant, Gray, and that before he purchased them the…