Hampton & Branchville Railroad & Lumber Co. v. Sizer

The action is to recover certain chattels, to-wit, about '79,000 feet of lumber, also for damages for detention. It is alleged that the plaintiff was and still is the sole owner and entitled to the sole possession of said lumber and to each and every part thereof, and that the defendant Sizer wrongfully and unlawfully caused the same to be seized under an attachment against the firm of Campbell & Scherer and sold by the sheriff in satisfaction of a judgment obtained against that firm by the defendant Sizer. The American Surety Company was substituted as a defendant in the place of the…