Jones v. Simpson

These actions — one against the United States marshal for ■ the District of Kansas, and the other against the sheriff of one of the counties, of that State — -were brought to recover damages for an alleged wrongful seizure and conversion, by those officers, of certain goods and chattels which plaintiffs in error, who were plaintiffs below, claimed to have purchased, prior to such seizure, from G-. & M. Goldsmith. The seizure, in each case, was made in virtue of attachments sued out by creditors of said vendors. The defence is, that the propertyusas liable to seizure as the property of the…