Shows v. Brantley
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Crensliaw. Tried before the lion. J. C. Kichardson. The appellant, T. W. Shows, brought an action of detinue against J. G. Wilkins, R. H. Wilkins and Ma riah Wilkins, to recover possession of 75 bushels of ■corn and 500 pounds of fodder.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Crensliaw. Tried before the lion. J. C. Kichardson. The appellant, T. W. Shows, brought an action of detinue against J. G. Wilkins, R. H. Wilkins and Ma riah Wilkins, to recover possession of 75 bushels of ■corn and 500 pounds of fodder. After the property-sued for had been seized by the sheriff under a writ of detinue, the appellee, T. K. Brantley interposed his claim thereto, and upon the interposition of this claim, the statutory trial, of the right of property was instituted,'between Shows and Brantley. The facts adduced on the trial of the case are…
1Opinion of the CourtHaralson, J.
This suit, as appears, was by the plaintiff to recover possession of seventy-five bushels of- corn and five hundred pounds of fodder, and was instituted against J. G. and R. H. Wilkins and Mariali Wilkins. He gave bond as provided under the statute for the purpose, and the sheriff, as directed by the clerk, levied on the property in the possession of defendants, and took the same into his posession.
The claimant, T. K. Brantley, by his attorney, made an affidavit, stating that the property had been levied *354on as tlie property of J. G. and Mariah. Wilkins, and that it was not the property to…
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