Ellis v. Rickett
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Clarence E. Bickett, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiffs, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Jefferson on the 10th day'of June, 1916, upon the verdict of a jury. .
1Opinion of the Court
Foote, J.:
Defendant is a deputy sheriff of Jefferson county. As such he received an execution against the property of George W. Brown on or about March 15, 1916. This execution was issued from the County Court of Jefferson county upon a judgment *412recovered before a justice of the peace and docketed in the county clerk’s office upon a transcript duly filed. Defendant thereupon levied upon a motor boat named Just Brown as the property of said George W. Brown. It was in fact his property, but plaintiffs, claiming to hold chattel mortgages thereon, demanded the boat from defendant, which, being…
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