Breithaupt v. Dean

This suit is by the appellant, Mrs. C. T. Breithaupt, against A. E. Dean, ex-sheriff, to recover damages for the wrongful levy of an execution upon her Ford car. There was a verdict and judgment in favor of the ex-sheriff, Dean, from which Mrs. Breithaupt appeals.

In the year 1922, D. C. Dorsett obtained a judgment against Mr. C. T. Breithaupt, husband of the appellant, and had execution issued and placed in the hands of the sheriff, A. E. Dean, appellee herein, and the sheriff levied on the Ford automobile as the property of Mr. Breithaupt. Mrs. Breithaupt notified the sheriff that the…