Wilson v. Montague

The plaintiff brought his action of replevin to recover a stock of drugs from the defendant, who was under-sheriff of the county of Kalamazoo, and who took possession of the same at the time the writ was issued by virtue of two writs of attachment levied thereon on the 8th day of August, 1883, and an execution issued upon a judgment rendered in one of the attachment suits. The goods were owned by and in the possession of Leon Kewney when the defendant levied his attachment thereon, and he, on the 17th day of May previous, gave to the plaintiff a chattel mortgage on the property, which was…