Wheat v. Bower

This was an action of debt on a replevin bond executed by Each el Chewning with Oliver C. Bower as surety, to Z. D. Wheat, coroner of Coles County, in a suit brought by said Kacliel Chewning against J. H. McClelland, the sheriff of said county. The property replevied consisted of a stock of merchandise which had been levied on by the sheriff by virtue of an execution in his hands in favor of J. P. Foreman and seized under a writ of attachment in favor of Braman, Berry & Co. against George W. Chewning, the husband of said Bachel Chewning.

The replevin suit was tried and the issues were found in…