Albrecht v. Long
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendants from an order of tbe district court for Waseca county, Cox, J., presiding, (acting for the judge of tbe fifth district,) refusing a new trial. A former appeal is reported, 25 Minn. 163.
1Opinion of the CourtGilfillan, C. J.
The charge of the court in the trial below was certainly open to criticism; but if the jury found the only verdict which, upon the evidence, they could properly find, any errors in the charge were harmless. The case grows out of a race of diligence between creditors, to collect their claims against failing debtors. Long was sheriff of Waseca county. Stephenson was one of his deputies. An execution *82in favor of one firm of creditors was placed in the hands of Long, for service, at ten and a half o’clock p. m. of March 19, 1877, and at two o’clock a. m. of the 20fch, two other executions in…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Albrecht v. LongSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1878
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