Section 69-13-27 - Owner may replevy animal

The owner of the animal, or person entitled to the custody, may, after suit is brought and before final judgment, replevy the animal by giving bond, with sufficient sureties, to be approved by the justice of the peace, clerk, constable, or sheriff, in double the value thereof; and thereafter the suit shall proceed and the bond be in the place of the animal, and judgment may be rendered against the obligors therein.Codes, 1880, § 986; 1892, § 2052; 1906, § 2231; Hemingway's 1917, § 4550; 1930, § 5448; 1942, § 4876.