Bancroft-Whitney Co. v. Mayfield
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from Tulsa County Court; N. J. Gubser, Judge. Action by the Bancroft-Whitney Company against W. S. Mayfield, constable, and J. U. Elliott, deputy constable. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
AMES, C.
The plaintiff brought an action of replevin against the defendants, alleging that they were, respectively, the constable and deputy constable of Tulsa township; that the plaintiff wras the owner of certain law books, being the American Decisions, the American Reports, and American State Reports and the Digests; that the defendants had wrongfully taken the property. The defendants’ answer contained, first, a general denial; and, second, as an affirmative defense, that they had taken the books from one Ben. F. Kesterson, that he was the owner thereof, and that they had taken…
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