Denny v. Bennett
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OF MINNESOTA. Trover against the marshal of the Circuit Court of the United States-for the District of Minnesota for the conversion of property seized under a writ of attachment issuing out of that court. Yerdict for the plaintiff, and judgment on the verdict. The defendant sued out this writ of error. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr,. Justice Miller
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is a writ of error to the Supreme Court of the State of Minnesota.
The principal point raised by the assignments of error is, that an act of the legislature of that State, approved March 7, 1881, c. 148,. Laws of 1881, p. 193, is repugnant to the Constitution of the United States so far as it affects citizens of States other than Minnesota. That statute provides that whenever the property of a debtor is seized by an attachment or execution against him he may make an assignment of all his property and estate, not exempt by law, for the…
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