Low v. Martin

This was an action of replevin for a quantity of corn.

The defendant pleaded property in himself, traversing the averment of the declaration, that the corn was the property of the plaintiffs, and a plea setting up his lien, as a common warehouseman, for storage of the corn. To this last plea the plaintiffs replied doubly: First, denying the indebtedness for storage; and, second, that the defendant falsely and fraudulently issued to the plaintiffs divers warehouse receipts, purporting that the defendant, as a common warehouseman, had received, and had on store for the plaintiffs certain large…