Le Page v. Slade

COLLARD, Judge.

This is an action of trial of the right of property. John Slade, the appellee, holding and owning a note of some $3000 against E. R. Thurber & Co., brought suit on the same and levied attachment on 109 sacks of wool as the property of the firm. Henry Le Page, the appellant, claimed the property by affidavit and bond. The trial of the case resulted in a verdict and judgment for Slade, the attaching creditor, from which Le Page and his bondsmen appealed.

The first error assigned is that the court refused to instruct the jury as requested by the defendant that the burden of proof…