McGee v. Anderson

Judge Marshall

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This was an action of trespass, by RIcGee against Anderson, for taking and converting the plaintiff’s mare. *188The defendant justified under an execution against the plaintiff and others, by virtue of which he, as sheriff, had taken and sold the mare. The plaintiff replied that at the time, &c. he was a bona fide house keeper, with a family, and had but two animals of the- horse kind, viz: two mares, and that, electing to keep the mare levied on, under the statutory exemption of one work beast, he had on the day of sale, and at and before the…