Dodge v. Goodell

This case comes up from the Court of Common Pleas on exceptions. It is replevin for two mares, a wagon, a buggy, and divers other chattels, which, when replevied, were in the possession of the defendant, a deputy sheriff, who had attached them shortly before as the property of one Charles E. Read, at the suit of one Stephen S. Shepard. They were replevied August 27, 1886. It appeared at the trial that Shepard had been a copartner in business with Read, and had taken from him, on retiring, his note for $950 for money due from him to Shepard; that the suit in which the attachment was made was…