Casher v. Peterson

OPINION of the Court.

Kirkpatrick G. J.

This case from the papers sent up, appears to be thus. On the 3d of March 1813, Abraham Peterson, the plaintiff below, by virtue of two executions in his hands, as a constable, levied upon certain goods and chattels of one John Fennimore, to the value of 53 dollars, and on the same day set up advertisements to sell the same on the 9th of the same month. In his state of demand he charges, that John Casher, the defendant, another constable, on the 4th of March 1813, took the said goods out of his possession with force and arms> and converted them to his own…