Gray v. Succession of Brown

The plaintiff has appealed from a judgment rejecting her demand for damages. She claims that she suffered $8,000 damages by a provisional seizure of her household furniture and effects. She contends that the seizure was unlawful, wanton, and malicious, and that it destroyed her business as keeper of a boarding and lodging house.

Plaintiff rented from James C. Brown the house which she used as a boarding and lodging house. She was in arrears for two months’ rent, at $75 a month, when Brown sued her and had her houséhold furniture and effects provisionally seized. In order to bring his suit…