Nugent v. Goldsmith

The plaintiff brought replevin to recover the possession of a span of horses taken by the defendant as a deputy sheriff of Kent county, by virtue of a writ of attachment issued out of the circuit court for said county at the suit of Mary Nugent against Daniel Nugent.

In the spring of 1879, Daniel Nugent was residing with his mother upon an 80-acre homestead, the legal title of which was in him, subject to a life-lease thereon to his mother, and also a life-lease upon one forty to an invalid brother, John Nugent, to take effect upon the death of the mother. Daniel also owned 120 acres of land,…