Lord v. . Hardie

This is a controversy submitted without action upon a case agreed, the facts of which are as follows:

The defendant, as sheriff, by virtue of a writ of fieri fados- issued to him on a judgment recovered by John A. Parior, former pastor of the first Colored Baptist church of Fayette-ville, against the plaintiffs, trustees of said church, for his pastoral services, seized and took into his possession, a silver pitcher, two silver plates and two silver goblets, with the box in which they are kept, used in the public worship of the church and constituting its "communion service. The articles were…