Hanna v. Steinberger

An execution from the United States Circuit Court for the District of Indiana, in favour of Steinberger and others against Sherry and others, was levied on certain goods in the possession of the execution-defendants. PLanna, the plaintiff in error, filed a claim to the goods before a justice of the peace. The execution-plaintiffs and the marshal appeared before the justice, and moved to dismiss the suit for want of jurisdiction. The motion was overruled. Issue was then joined, the cause tried, and judgment rendered for the claimant, the goods being found to be worth $>1,350. The defendants…