Bailey v. Wright

Defendant in error replevied a piano from plaintiffs in error, who defend on the ground that she purchased from one Ackley, and that the purchase was void as against a levy made by them upon an attachment against him.

*97Several questions are presented on the record, but inasmuch as the only defense was under the levy, the validity of that is the first matter to be considered.

The defendants by their own testimony showed that while Ackley was temporarily absent, and his house, where his wife was present at the time, was locked up, they broke into it by violence and seized the piano upon the writ.

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