Barrett v. Oakley, Sheriff

Riner, Justice.

The appellant, as plaintiff below, brought an action of replevin in the District Court of Lincoln County, to recover certain wool of the alleged value of $5073.57 and damages for its detention from D. C. Oakley, Sheriff of Lincoln County, Wyoming, and the Mountain Trading Company, a corporation, as defendants. Oakley died during the pen-dency of the action, and as no substitution of parties was made, the Mountain Trading Company — hereinafter to be referred to as the “trading company” or as the “defendant ’ ’- — is the only respondent here. Inasmuch as the property involved was…