Sabin v. Adams

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Stiles, J.

It was technically an error to permit the assignee of Adams, Hart & Co. to file a sort of intervention in this case in order to get possession of the goods taken from him under the attachment issued by Sabin. The proceeding should have been in the matter of the assignment, and the officer and the parties behind him should have been dealt with summarily for interfering with the assignee’s possession, which was the possession of the court. But we shall not order the property to be given back to the sheriff because the petition of the assignee…