Legal Opinion

Burrows v. Waddell

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided October 25, 1879PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Appeal from Sae District Oov/rt. Action to recover specific personal property. Trial to the court, judgment for the intervenor and defendant alone appeals.

1Opinion of the CourtSeevers, J.

i. rkpt.win: evidence. ’ The plaintiff, in his petition, alleged the property was taken from him by the defendant as sheriff, by virtue of an execution against-Thomas H. Burrows. The defendant in his answer justified the taking under the execution.

At this stage the petition of intervention was filed in which the intervenor claimed he was entitled to the possession of the property under a bill of sale, and that he had served a written notice to this effect on the deputy sheriff. The defendant answered the petition and stated the bill of sale “was of no force *196and effect, and transferred no…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Reed v. ReedSupreme Court of Iowa · 1861

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Marks v. Robinson & LedyardSupreme Court of Alabama · 1886
  2. Peterman v. JonesSupreme Court of Iowa · 1895

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