Superior Court of Delaware July 5, 1881 (Jackson v. Delaplaine)

ACTION of replevin of goods distrained for rent in arrear. The counsel for the defendants had withdrawn all the pleas in the case except the avowry and conusance, to which the general replication was entered, and that in this state of the pleadings and the issue presented by them the burden of proving to the satisfaction of the jury that he had rightfully distrained the goods for the rent