Beaver v. Danville Shirt Co.

This was a trial of the right of property under the statute, commenced before a justice of the peace and taken by appeal to the Circuit Court, where the verdict and judgment were against the claimant, who prosecutes this further appeal.

For some four years next before and up to September 12, 1895, if not to a later date, Nathaniel and Ohauncey Beaver, as partners under the firm name of Beaver Brothers, carried on a retail business in dry goods, carpets and gentlemen’s furnishings at Hoopeston. On the 23d of November of that year appellee placed in the hands of a constable an execution duly…