Supreme Court of Alabama December 15, 1887 (Stephenson v. Brunson)

GLOPTON, J.

A person who takes up an estray, • and complies with the requirements of the statutes, is constituted a bailee of the animal during the time he is required to keep it, unless sooner claimed by the owner; and is vested with a qualified property in the subject of the bailment, which becomes absolute on the failure of the owner to appear and prove his property therein within the time