O'Donnell v. Segar

Christiancy, Ch. J.

This was an action of replevin brought by Segar, the defendant in error, in the circuit court for the county of St. Clair, for a yoke of oxen which had been seized by Spencer, a constable, under a writ of attachment issued by a justice of the peace, at the suit of O’Donnell, against Segar and one Arthur Smith, April 6, 1870. Judgment was obtained in the attachment suit, and the oxen sold upon the execution issued in that suit. [The record does not show how Spencer and O’Donnell obtained, or held the possession of the property after the sale, so as to render them jointly…