Perkins v. Ogilvie

Opinion op the Court by

Chiep Justice Barker

Reversing.

This action was instituted in the McCracken circuit court hy the appellant, Charles Perkins, against the ap*413pellees, John W. Ogilvie and R. 0. Fortson his deputy, to recover damages for an alleged trespass against him which consisted in forcibly putting him out of possession of eighty-nine acres of land in McCracken county which he had rented from the owner, John B. Steele. The sheriff and his deputy were acting under the authority of a writ of possession issued by the judge of the MeCracken circuit court in the case of A. T. Russell v. John…