Elliott v. Hayden

This is an action of tort for the conversion of certain machinery belonging to the plaintiffs. The conversion complained of is an attachment of the machinery by a deputy sheriff as the property of one Waite upon a writ in favor of the defendants. These plaintiffs heretofore demanded the property *181of the deputy sheriff, and, upon his refusal to give it up, brought an action for its conversion against him, and recovered judgment against him for $1125 damages, upon which no execution has been taken out, and which is wholly unsatisfied.

The first question presented by the report is, whether that…