Sterling v. Ripley
Wisconsin Supreme Court
EBBOB to the Circuit Court for Iowa county. Ripley brought trespass against Sterling for taking and carrying away a quantity of goods and merchandise.
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EBBOB to the Circuit Court for Iowa county. Ripley brought trespass against Sterling for taking and carrying away a quantity of goods and merchandise. The defendant Sterling pleaded in justification that he was at the time, etc., sheriff of Iowa county, and took said property by virtue of an attachment directed to him as such sheriff issued out of the circuit court for Iowa county, in a suit wherein C. H. & H. P. Corwith were plaintiffs, and William J. Hammond and Ephraim P. Yaughan were defendants, commanding him to attach the property of said Hammond and Vaughan, or said Hammond; that at…
1Opinion of the CourtJackson, J.
Levi Sterling, as the sheriff of the county of Iowa, by his deputy Jackson Richardson, seized upon a stock of merchandize in the possession of Benjamin Ripley, under and by virtue of a writ of attachment issued from the Iowa county circuit court, in favor of C. H. & H. P. Corwith, against Ephraim P. Vaughan and William J. Hammond.
Ripley claiming to be the owner of the goods, as the vendee of Hammond, instituted an action of trespass against the sheriff-for taking and carrying away the goods seized under the attachment, and recovered a judgment in his favor, in the Iowa county circuit court,…
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