Rollofson v. Nash
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Grant county against defendant sheriff to recover $2,000 for the conversion of certain merchandise. The cause was tried before C. L. Brown, J., and a jury, which rendered a verdict in favor of defendant. From an order denying a motion for a new trial, plaintiffs appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtBuck, J.
On November 18, 1896, Ole J. Lee, as plaintiff, recovered a judgment against one Mathias Rollofson, father of the plaintiffs in this action, for the sum of $251.45. The Rollofsons lived near the village of Hoffman, Grant county, in this state, one son .being 25 years old and the other aged 22 years. About May 1, 1897, or the latter part of April, the plaintiffs started a store in Hoffman; and on September 18 of that year the defendant, Nash, as sheriff of that county, by virtue of an execution issued on said judgment, levied on a large'amount of goods in said store as the goods of the father,…
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