Stapleton v. Brannan

This is an action of replevin to recover sixteen cows taken by the defendant, as city marshal, on an execution against the plaintiff’s husband, John Stapleton, Sr., issued upon a judgment recovered against him December 4,1897, for $142.29, in favor of one James C. Ward. The defendant, as such officer, justified under such judgment and execution, and alleged and claimed, in effect, that the cows were the property of the plaintiff’s husband, and raised on his farm. At the close of the trial the court directed a verdict in the usual-form in such cases in favor of the defendant, and that he was…