Hamlin v. Kassafer

This action was brought by the plaintiff against the defendants to recover certain personal property alleged to have been wrongfully taken. The defendants admitted the taking, but justified in substance to this effect: That on the 28th day of September, 1887, the defendant Carlton recovered a judgment in a Justice’s Court before one E. D. Foudroy, against the plaintiff Hamlin, for the sum of eighty dollars and costs; that execution was issued thereon, and placed in the hands of the defendant Kassafer as constable, and that the property aforesaid was seized and taken into custody under the…