Half, Weiss & Co. v. Curtis

Stayton, Associate Justice.

An action was brought by the appellants against the appellee to recover the sum of six hundred and five dollars and sixty cents, and thereon an attachment was sued out and the writ levied on property of the appellee valued at one thousand nine hundred and eleven dollars. Shortly after the levy, the goods were sold under order of court and brought seven hundred and one dollars, which, so far as necessary, was applied to the payment of the claim sued on.

The appellee sought, in this action brought by him, to recover damages, actual and exemplary, on the ground that the…