Johnston v. First National Bank

An action in replevin was brought by the First National Bank of Otis, Colorado, a banking corporation, against Rufus A. Johnston, sheriff of Morgan county, to recover possession of forty head, more or less, of red white-faced 1937 spring calves branded two bar seven on the left hip, which were held by the sheriff under levy of execution against C. V. Owens and E. H. Owens in favor of the First National Bank of Fort Morgan. Judgment was rendered in favor of plaintiff and defendant bank seeks a reversal thereof.

The Otis bank held two notes of one Rex O. Howlett in the aggregate amount of…