Freedman v. Campfield

On January 2é, 1889, the defendants in this suit obtained judgment in justice’s court against Jacob Freedman for $06 damages and $2.75 costs of suit. February 1, following, execution was issued upon this judgment, and levied upon a quantity of scrap iron' claimed to belong to Jacob Freedman. Defendants sold the iron under this execution. Plaintiffs brought this suit in trover in justice’s court for St. Clair county, for the value of the scrap iron seized by defendants under their execution. Defendants, under their plea of the general issue, gave notice that the scrap iron belonged *119to Jacob…