Clark v. Smith

This action was brought in a Justices’ Court to recover the value of a wagon and other articles of personal property owned by the plaintiff, and which he claimed had been unlawfully taken from his possession by the defendant and converted to his own use.

The defendant, at the time of the alleged taking and conversion of said property, was collector of the village of Prattsville and attempted to justify his acts in seizing and selling plaintiff’s property under an assessment-roll and warrant issued to him for the collection of the taxes mentioned on said roll, by the trustees of the village of…