Supreme Court of New Jersey November 15, 1827 (Grover v. Bruere)

Bruere sued Grover

in an action of trover and conversion for a mare. On the trial he proved that the mare had for some time been in the possession of one William Tilton, from whom he purchased her for sixty dollars, to bo paid one-half in money and thé residue by the ironing of a wagon; and that for some time afterward lie had used and possessed the mare.