Hoffman v. Culver

This was an action of replevin, brought by the Culvers, appellees, against the appellants, Rumsey and Walker, Hoffman, sheriff, and August Martin, for a quantity of wheat which had been seized by the sheriff by an attachment in favor of Rumsey & Walker, and against said Martin. The case was submitted to the court, for trial without a jury, on an agreed statement of facts, from which, directly, or by clear inference, it appears that, August LI, 1879, the Culvers, being the owners of wheat, the quantity unknown, contained in a railroad car on the track of a railroad company, having the…