Case Name: ALFRED ANDERSON v. JOSEPH BRENNAN
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Minnesota
Decision Date: 1908-07-03
Citations: 105 Minn. 518
Docket Number: Nos. 15,663-(165)
Parties: ALFRED ANDERSON v. JOSEPH BRENNAN.
Judges: 
Reporter: Minnesota Reports
Volume: 105
Pages: 518–519

Head Matter:
ALFRED ANDERSON v. JOSEPH BRENNAN.
July 3, 1908.
Nos. 15,663-(165).
Action in the municipal court of Minneapolis to recover possession of a bay mare or $140, the. value thereof, and $200 damages for the detention. The case was tried before C. L. Smith, J., and a jury which rendered a verdict in favor of plaintiff for the immediate return of the property and in ease it could not be returned for the sum of $140. From an order denying his motion for a new trial, defendant appealed.
Affirmed.
Herbert E. Day, for’ appellant.
Anthony T.,Grotte and T. Franlo Courtney, for respondent.
Reported in 116 N. W. 1133.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
This is an action in claim and delivery for a bay mare. The complain was in the usual form. The answer was a general denial, with an affirmativi allegation that the defendant was the owner of the ma.re. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, and the defendant appealed from an order denying his motion for a new trial.
The only question presented for our consideration by the assignments of error is one of fact; that is, whether the verdict is sustained by the evidence. The pivotal question on the trial was the identity of the mare. The contention of defendant's counsel is to the effect that there is no substantial evidence to support the verdict. An examination of the evidence shows that it was conflicting and of a character that made the question of the identity of the animal manifestly one of fact for the jury. Their finding either way upon the question could not have been set aside as a matter of strict legal right. The verdict is sustained by the evidence.
Order affirmed.