Edgar v. Yant

Suit was by Roy Edgar, plaintiff in error, against Alex. Yant, as sheriff of Otero County, and The American Surety Company, as bondsman of such Sheriff, for damages in the sum of $3,000.00, for the conversion of a certain stallion alleged to be the property of plaintiff, and levied upon while in his possession, where, as the record shows, it had been for upwards of eleven months. A demurrer was filed to an amended complaint upon the ground that it failed to state a cause of action, in that it appeared therefrom that plaintiff was neither the owner nor entitled to the possession of the…