Supreme Court of Iowa October 18, 1887 (McDonald v. Norton)

Rothrock, J.

The plaintiff claimed to be the owner of the colt by virtue of a chattel mortgage executed by one Chavis. It is charged in the petition, in substance, that the *653defendant bought the colt of Ohavis without plaintiff’s knowledge, and that the defendant’s purchase of the property, and his refusal to deliver the same to the plaintiff, and “ disposing and concealing the same,” was