Walter v. Jenkins

BERGER, J.,

The jury rendered a verdict against the defendant and he has filed motions for a new trial and judgment n. o. v. The defendant, Robert E. Jenkins, was Sheriff of Schuylkill County for the term ending Jan. 4, 1926, and William B. McCool was one of his duly appointed deputies. On Oct. 23, 1924, McCool, on a landlord’s warrant, which defendant admits in paragraph 3 of his affidavit of defense had come “into his hands” for execution, levied on two horses and one wagon then in the possession of George Baehert, in the Borough of Tamaqua. The landlord who issued the *187warrant was a Mrs.…