Schrandt v. Young

Pound, C.

This is an action of replevin involving some 536 sheep taken by, the plaintiffs from the possession of the defendant, who held them under a written contract of agistment whereby he was to receive one-half of the increase after making good all losses and one half of the wool-clip, by way of compensation. The contract was for a term of three years, but at the end of the first year the plaintiffs, claiming that the defendant had failed to comply with the terms of the contract as to care, feed and protection of the sheep, so that a number had been lost and the others damaged, demanded…