Reissner v. Oxley

— The appellees obtained a judgment against the appellants for the recovery of possession of personal property. The appellant Reissner, by virtue of an execution issued to him as sheriff, had levied upon the articles in question us the goods of Everett & Homan, the execution defendants ; and the disputed point in the case was, whether the goods, in fact, belonged to Everett & Homan, or to the appellees, Oxley & Giddings.

The evidence shows that the appellees, who were wholesale dealers in gas fixtures and like goods, in New York City, entered into a contract for supplying their goods to…