Griffith v. Douglass

This is an action of trespass against the sheriff for the taking and carrying away by his deputy of certain goods and chatties to which the plaintiff claims title. The defendant justifies their seizure under writs in favor of Orange C. Littlefield and others against Joseph F. Barden, whose property he alleges them to be.

Joseph F. Barden and wife then residing in Lewiston but intending soon to remove to Bethel and being indebted to the plaintiff, on the twentieth of May, 1873, executed a mortgage to secure such indebtedness of "the following described property, viz : all the furniture and…