Ford v. McMaster

This action was brought for the recovery of seventeen thousand eight hundred and forty pounds of oats valued at $303.28, alleged to have been unlawfully taken by the defendants from the plaintiff, and converted to the use of the defendants. The defendants, who were the sheriff, his deputy, and the claimant, Speer, seek to justify the taking of the oats by virtue of an execution in favor of Speer, and against Norton, from whose possession the property was taken. It is admitted by the parties that the plaintiff, Ford, purchased the property from Norton on the same day of the levy, and th¿ only…