Hall v. Stryker
New York Supreme Court
THIS was an action to recover the value of certain household furniture, alleged to have been seized and taken away by the defendant, as sheriff of King’s county. The answer put in issue the taking, and also justified, under an attachment issued out of the supreme court in favor of one Dewitt 0. Hay, against Bobert Hall; claiming that the property taken was the property of said Bobert Hall.
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THIS was an action to recover the value of certain household furniture, alleged to have been seized and taken away by the defendant, as sheriff of King’s county. The answer put in issue the taking, and also justified, under an attachment issued out of the supreme court in favor of one Dewitt 0. Hay, against Bobert Hall; claiming that the property taken was the property of said Bobert Hall. The jury found a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for $1178.96, and the court thereupon ordered that the exceptions taken at the trial should be heard in the first instance at a general term, and judgment…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Brown, J.
The plaintiff claimed to recover the goods in controversy under a bill of sale, duly executed to her by one Bobert Hall, who was the owner at the time. The bill was executed and delivered on the 30th November, 1857, and the object of the parties to the instrument was to secure to the plaintiff the sum óf $1000 due to her from the vendor. The defendant is the sheriff of the county of Kings, and he justified, or claimed to justify, the taking of the goods under a warrant of attachment, issued by the Hon. Thomas W. Clerke, one of the justices of this court, in an action…
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