Towdy v. Ellis
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the Fourth Judicial District. The complaint is verified, and alleges that on the twelfth day of March, 1862, the plaintiff, J. C. Towdy, was the owner and entitled to the possession of certain personal property, the items of which are set forth, and that defendant, on the day mentioned, unlawfully took the goods from the possession of the plaintiff, and still wrongfully detains them; that the value of the goods is three hundred and two dollars and forty-two…
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Appeal from the Fourth Judicial District. The complaint is verified, and alleges that on the twelfth day of March, 1862, the plaintiff, J. C. Towdy, was the owner and entitled to the possession of certain personal property, the items of which are set forth, and that defendant, on the day mentioned, unlawfully took the goods from the possession of the plaintiff, and still wrongfully detains them; that the value of the goods is three hundred and two dollars and forty-two cents, and prays judgment for a return of the goods, or for then’ value, with damages in the sum of one hundred dollars and…
1Opinion of the CourtCrocker, J.
This is an action to recover the possession of personal property, and the defendant, who is the Sheriff of the County of San Francisco, claimed that it was the properly of one Krohe, and that he had levied upon it by virtue of an attachment against him. The defendant recovered judgment against the plaintiff for the possession of the property and for his costs, from which, and from an order overruling a motion for a new trial, the plaintiff appeals.
The new trial was denied on the twenty-first day of November, 1862, and the notice of appeal was filed February 10th, 1863, and the defendant…
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