Yelton v. Handley

On the 28th or 29th of June, 1887, appellant bargained for "a horse of John W. Lewis, for $130, and on the following day took possession, without notice of any adverse claim to or lien upon it. On the 2d of July appellee, who was sheriff of the county, received an execution, issued on the same day, against said Lewis, which he levied on said horse. Thereupon appellant brought this suit in replevin to recover it,in which be failed below.

It appears that the only warrant for this writ of execution was a decree of divorce against Lewis at the March term, 1887, of the Edgar Circuit Court, awarding…