Wheeler v. Wallace

This action was brought for the conversion of certain live-stock, farming implements, and other farm property which defendant, as sheriff of the county of Washtenaw, had taken from the possession of the plaintiff by virtue of writs of execution against Harvey M. Wheeler, the father of the plaintiff, and on a claim that it was the property of said Harvey. It was conceded that the property had mostly belonged to said Harvey, but the plaintiff claimed to have *357purchased it from him, and the defendant contested the purchase as fraudulent. The purchase was made in September, 1878, and was…