Case ID: gunby_1/html/0065-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Farmer, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Wm. Kempt ys. R. H. Kelly.
   Farmer, J.

Where one party delivers a mule to another to keep for him for its feed, and the latter party wrongfully sell's the mule, held : The action to recover the value of the mule is not for a tort, but for an active breach of contract, and is prescriptible only by ten years. The action for property wrongfully taken is barred by one year; 21 An. 492; but in the present case the party rightfully had possession of the property and his acts were like those of an unfaithful agent or depositary.