Vanneter v. Crossman

The fatal defect in the case of the plaintiffs in the court below was that Vanneter held the property which they replevied, by virtue of their own attachment. It may be perfectly true that they caused the attachment to be levied under a mistake regarding their legal rights; but the fact remains that Vanneter had seized and then held the property under the command of their own writ, and he had no authority to deliver it over to them while the attachment suit was pending. The demand they made upon him was consequently an idlo form.

E. D. Lewis for the motion. Q. A. Smith against.

It is very plain…