Barney v. Douglass
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR to the Circuit Court for Crawford County. This action was brought to reverse a judgment against the plaintiff in error, and in favor of the defendant in error. The errors relied upon, so far as they are important here, will appear from the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPaiNE, J.
The action was to recover possession of a steam engine, and damages for its detention. The plaintiff below had caused it to be shipped on a barge which the steamer Idaho was to transport from Galena to La Crosse. The barge was towed to Prairie du Chien, and there left by the steamer; and while there, the engine was attached upon a claim against the steamboat. The intestate of the plaintiff in error, who was the sheriff, served-the attachment, and held the property under it. It was conceded that the attachment was invalid, and that the property did not belong to the steamboat; so that no…
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