Douglass v. Hill
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Butler District Court. Action brought by Hill against Douglass, as sheriff of Butler county, to recover the value of a certain stock of goods. Trial at the September Term, 1881, of the district court, and judgment for plaintiff for $770 and costs. The defendant brings the case here. The opinion states the facts.
1Opinion of the Court
*528The opinion of the court was delivered by
Brewer, J.:
This was an action brought by the defendant in error, plaintiff below, to recover the value of a certain stock of goods claimed to have been taken and converted to his own use by defendant. Prior to May 2,1881, the goods belonged to and were in the possession of one J. L. Bowlden. On that day plaintiff claims to have purchased them. Thereafter the defendant, as sheriff of Butler county, seized them by virtue of a writ of attachment issued against said Bowlden. Therefore the question in the case was, whether the goods at the time of the levy…
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