Carr v. Ellis

The facts necessary to a proper understands ing of the question in the case, are these:

James Kinsey held a judgment against James J. Hamilton,, in the Henry Circuit Court, for about three hundred dollars.. On the 16th day of April, 1867, an execution was issued, in*466due form of law, upon the said judgment, and was placed in the hands of the appellant, who was the duly elected and acting sheriff of the said county of Henry, who by virtue thereof, on the said day, levied on a cow as the property of the said judgment defendant. Ellis claimed to be the owner of the said cow by purchase of the said…