Folger v. Kenner

The plaintiff, as assignee of N. C. Folger, brought this action to recover an iron sate alleged to belong to him, and to be in possession-of defendant in his dwelling house, and to be there illegally detained by the latter.

The defendant averred that the object of the suit was, more properly speaking, a vault, attached to the walls of his dwelling with brick and mortar, and therefore immovable.

There was judgment for plaintiff for the safe or its value, and the defendant appealed.

The defendant purchased the dwelling house here mentioned from R. H. Bayley, who had purchased- it at sheriff’s sale…