Stevens v. Hallmark

BAUGH, Justice.

T. E. Stevens sued the sheriff of Brown county to recover 129 cases 'of beer seized by the sheriff on the 29th of July, 1935, under a search warrant; or in the alternative for damages in the sum of $2 per case for alleged unlawful detention by the sheriff of said beer, which Stevens claimed as his property. The trial was to the court, and judgment rendered that the plaintiff take nothing; from which judgment he prosecutes this appeal.

The agreed statement of facts shows that Brown county was, at the time said beer was seized, dry territory; that Stevens possessed said beer for…