The People v. . Reeder

I am of opinion that the Supreme Court fell into an error in reversing the judgment entered on the verdict. No point is better settled than that a party giving a receipt for property seized by an officer, upon an execution or an attachment, is estopped from setting up against the officer that the property is his own. That precise question arose in Dezell v. Odell (3 Hill, 215), and was determined against the receiptor. The estoppel would be perfect in the present case, even upon the dissenting opinion of Judge BRONSON in that case. The receipt there did not contain the admission, inserted in…