Tieman v. Haw
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Des Moines District Cowt. The plaintiff claims that he was the holder of a chattel mortgage upon a certain ñatboat owned by one Corville ; that the defendant Haw, being the coroner and acting sheriff of the county, arrested said Corville and his wife upon a charge of keeping a house of ill-fame upon said boat, and seized the boat in the Mississippi river and removed it to the levee at Burlington; that said Corville and wife were admitted to bail upon said charge…
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Appeal from Des Moines District Cowt. The plaintiff claims that he was the holder of a chattel mortgage upon a certain ñatboat owned by one Corville ; that the defendant Haw, being the coroner and acting sheriff of the county, arrested said Corville and his wife upon a charge of keeping a house of ill-fame upon said boat, and seized the boat in the Mississippi river and removed it to the levee at Burlington; that said Corville and wife were admitted to bail upon said charge in the sum of five hundred dollars, and plaintiff became surety on the bail bond, upon condition that said boat and the…
1Opinion of the Court
Rothrock Ch. J.
I. The evidence tended to show that the defendant Haw, in arresting the parties upon said boat, towed the boat to the levee at Burlington, and that at the time of the arrest he held no-process nor warrant against the boat, and that after the arrest of the parties, and pending their preliraary examination, a proceeding was instituted against the boat as a nuisance, and a warrant was issued by a justice of the peace, and delivered to the defendant Haw, ordering him to attach and levy on the boat, and hold it “subject to the decision of the District Court of Des Moines county. ”…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Strunk v. OcheltreeSupreme Court of Iowa · 1860
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