Colon v. Lisk
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiffs, Thomas Colin and others, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the. county of Richmond on the 18th .day of November, 1896, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Richmond Special Term overruling their demurrer to the affirmative answer of the defendants.
1Opinion of the Court
Hatch, J.:
The action is replevin and the allegations of' the complaint show that the plaintiffs are the owners of the oyster sloop Jessie, together with a large number of articles of personal property; that heretofore the defendants wrongfully and unlawfully took from the possession of the plaintiffs said sloop and other articles of personal property to the plaintiffs’ damage. The answer admits the ownership of the property and its taking, and for an affirmative defense it is averred that they are officers of the law, duly commissioned as such by the Fisheries, Game and Forest Commission of'…
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