Chesher v. Shafter Lake Clay Co.

ZINN, Justice.

This is an action in replevin wherein the Shafter Lake Clay Company, a corporation, sought to replevy a warehouse and a quantity of drilling clay and cotton seed hulls from W. Kerley, sheriff of Lea County, New Mexico, who had levied execution upon the same under a judgment rendered in the District Court of Lea County in a cause in which A. C. Chesher was plaintiff, and Eagle Clay Company was defendant.

The Eagle Clay Company was a New Mexico Corporation operating a drilling clay business in Lea County, New Mexico. The stock in this corporation was owned by T. W. Eagleston, his…