Black v. Clasby

The defendant Clasby was the constable of the first judicial township in the county of Colusa, and as such officer seized and took into his possession, under a writ of attachment issued out of the justice’s court for that township, in the action of W. W. Ludy v. Henry B. Black, certain personal property belonging to the plaintiff. At the time of its seizure, a portion of the property was in the possession of the plaintiff, and another portion in the possession of one Spencer, who was holding it as bailee for the plaintiff; but none of it was in possession of the defendant in the writ. A few…