Schroeder & Evers v. Clark

Scott, Judge,

delivered tbe opinion of the court.

The defendants in error brought suit against the plaintiff in error for taking property under an execution which they claimed. The plaintiff in error was a constable of St. Louis township, and was charged with the service of an execution at the suit of Meyer & Meister against the goods and chattels of Simon Helweg. The goods of Helweg being seized under the execution, the defendants in error interposed a claim to them, and the plaintiff in error, (the constable,) in pursuance to law, summoned a jury to try the right of property, who returned…