Adams v. Carnes

An execution issued from a justice’s court in favor of Adams against Carnes, for the principal sum of one hundred dollars, besides interest and cost of suit, and was levied on two mules as the property of the defendant, and a claim was interposed by Emma J. Carnes, his wife. On the trial of the issue in the justice’s court, the property was found subject, with a judgment for damages, the justice having found that the claim was interposed for delay only. An appeal was entered to the superior court, and the jury there returned a verdict that the property levied on and claimed was subject, and…