Hill v. Corcoran
Supreme Court of Colorado
Appeal from Superior Court of Denver. This was an action of replevin brought by the appellee Corcoran against Hill to recover the possession of certain property alleged to have been unlawfully taken, with damages for the detention.
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Appeal from Superior Court of Denver. This was an action of replevin brought by the appellee Corcoran against Hill to recover the possession of certain property alleged to have been unlawfully taken, with damages for the detention. Hill defended and justified the taking under mesne processes of attachment issued out of, the federal court in Colorado in two cases, in one of which Cousins and others were plaintiffs and Louis Witkowski was defendant, and in the other of which the Bay State Shoe & Leather Company were plaintiffs and Witkowski was likewise defendant. The defendant not only…
1Opinion of the Court
Bissell, C.
Among the many errors urged on behalf of the appellant, that which is most extensively argued is *272based upon tbe action of the court in entertaining jurisdiction of tbe suit. This question was supposed to have been set at rest by tbe decisions of this court in tbe cases of Smith v. Bauer, 9 Colo. 380; Weil v. Smith, 11 Colo. 310; Mitchell v. Smith, 13 Colo. 170; and Smith v. Jensen, 13 Colo. 213.
In view of the constant and repeated assaults upon the principle involved in these decisions, and of the later adjudications of the supreme court of the United States, particularly that of…
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2Cases cited9 opinions
- Covell v. HeymanSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
- Freeman v. HoweSupreme Court of the United States · 1861
- Buck v. ColbathSupreme Court of the United States · 1866
- Lammon v. FeusierSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
- Smith v. BauerSupreme Court of Colorado · 1886
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3Cited by4 opinions
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- State v. HoskinsCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 1978
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