Robinson v. Chapline
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Dubuque District Court. This was an action of trover, by which the plaintiff seeks to recover of the defendant, the value of certain goods taken by him, as deputy sheriff of Dubuque county, by virtue of a writ of attachment issued in an action by one Osmond Bailey against W. D. Gatchell, and taken as the goods of Gatchell.
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Appeal from Dubuque District Court. This was an action of trover, by which the plaintiff seeks to recover of the defendant, the value of certain goods taken by him, as deputy sheriff of Dubuque county, by virtue of a writ of attachment issued in an action by one Osmond Bailey against W. D. Gatchell, and taken as the goods of Gatchell. Robinson and Gatchell, on the 11th of April, 1855, entered into an agreement of the following substance: Robinson was to furnish Gatchell with from two to three thousand dollars worth of ready made clothing, &c., (the amount to be governed by the success of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.1
It seems to this court, that these goods are to be made liable to this attachment, only upon one of two grounds. One is, upon the supposition that there was a partnership between Robinson and Gatchell, and under the name of the latter, and that the goods were bought of Bailey by this firm. And the other is, the direct one, that the goods were the property of Gatchell. It is not intimated *95that there was a partnership. That the goods were Gatch-ell’s, is set up by the defendant in his formal pleadings, but it is not upon this ground that he seeks to hold them. The evidence affords…
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