Morris v. Reticker

The appellants sued the appellee, who is the sheriff of Rock Island county, in an action of replevin to recover certain goods purchased by Willard G. Nickerson of appellants, residing and doing business in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and, before replevin, levied on by the appellee as the property of Nickerson, by virtue of certain executions issued out of the County Court of said county, one in favor of L. S. McCabe and one in favor of Wm. Meyer, against Nickerson, which judgments were confessed by said Nickerson.

The appellants claim that the sale by them to Nickerson of the goods in question…