Beaman v. Stewart

This was an action brought by Stewart & Frost, as plaintiffs, against defendant Beaman as sheriff of Pueblo county, for damages alleged to have been sustained by plaintiffs on account of the wrongful and unlawful taking and detention by defendant of certain personal property of plaintiffs.

The answer was a general denial, an admission of the taking and detention, a justification under certain writs issued out of the district court of Pueblo county against the property of The F. IT. Stewart Carriage Company, and that the property was not the property of plaintiffs but was the property of the…