Gardner v. Bunn

This was an action of replevin, brought by John W. Bunn and others, against Thomas Gardner, to recover a stock of goods, under a chattel mortgage executed by J. B. Turner & Son to them. „ The principal question presented by the record arises upon the issue presented by the defendant’s sixth plea. In this plea defendant averred that he took the goods, as sheriff, under an execution directed to him from the circuit court of DeWitt county, in favor of Mack, Stadler & Co., against J. B. Turner & Son, the mortgagors; that the goods were the property of J. B. Turner & Son, and subject to said…