Riley v. Littlefield

This is an action of replevin of a race-horse known as “Dr. West,” and of which defendant, as sheriff of Wayne county, was in possession under certain writs of attachment issued out of the Wayne ’circuit court against the goods and property of one Clifton E. Mayne, of Omaha, Neb.

The plaintiff claimed to have obtained the horse of Mayne in May, 1888, in trade of a mare named “Delle *23Murray,” valued at $1,500; the mare’s colt valued at $1,000; and a filley, valued at $1,000. After the trade, Mayne still owed the plaintiff something over $8,000, when, in June following, plaintiff claims that…