Beurmann v. Van Buren

The plaintiff in error, being sheriff of the county of Livingston, seized under attachments against Daniel A. French certain merchandise as French’s property, and the defendant in error, the father-in-law of French, brought trover. He claimed to have bought the property of French, befpre the levy of the attachments, for $1600, and that a little more than $1000 of the consideration consisted of a sum French was owing him for money loaned and the interest on it, and that the remainder was represented by three promissory notes he made to French running two, four and six months, respectively, and…