Granning v. Swenson
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant, Peter P. Swenson, Sheriff, from an order of the District Court of Hennepin County, Lochren, J., made June 27, 1891, denying his motion for a new trial. Action by Mathea Granning, plaintiff, to recover damages for taking by defendant, as Sheriff of Hennepin County, of a quantity of lumber of the value of $400, which she claimed belonged to her.
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Appeal by defendant, Peter P. Swenson, Sheriff, from an order of the District Court of Hennepin County, Lochren, J., made June 27, 1891, denying his motion for a new trial. Action by Mathea Granning, plaintiff, to recover damages for taking by defendant, as Sheriff of Hennepin County, of a quantity of lumber of the value of $400, which she claimed belonged to her. The defendant answered that he was Sheriff, and had a writ of execution against Brown M. Granning, her husband; that the lumber belonged to, and was in the possession of, the husband; and that defendant took it under the writ. The…
1Opinion of the CourtDicjhns.on, J.
This action is to recover the value of a quantity of lumber seized by the defendant, the sheriff of Hennepin county, under an execution against the property of the plaintiff’s husband. It appeared on the trial that the plaintiff had entered into a contract for the purchase of certain lots of land, and the evidence *385tended to show tüat she had purchased this lumber, which had been delivered on such lots, and that she was having a house erected thereon. She lived with her husband elsewhere.
Upon the question of fact as to whether the plaintiff or her husband had purchased this lumber, the verdict…
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