Riddle v. Parke

This was an action by Parke against Piddle, to recover a certain article of personal property, to-wit, a piano forte.

The complaint alleges that the plaintiff is the “owner and entitled to the possession” of the property which the defendant has “possession of without right, and unlawfully detains.from the plaintiff.”

The defendant answered that he “does not unlawfully detain the said piano, but that the same is the property of one John S. Detweiler, and that,” &c., the same was levied upon as his property by Riddle, as sheriff, &c.

*90There was no reply filed to the answer.

The evidence disclosed…