Masters v. Champion

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hendrickson, J.

This is an appeal which brings up for review a judgment in favor of the defendants rendered in the District Court of Atlantic City. The action was tort, for *324entering the close of the plaintiff and the seizing and carrying away a lot of cedar and other lumber of the plaintiff valued at $300. The state of the case shows that the supposed trespass was committed by the defendant Scott Champion, who, as constable, had sold the lumber at constable’s sale, and by the other defendants, who were purchasers thereat. The defence was that the…