Best v. Stewart

The plaintiff commenced this, an action of replevin, in the district court of Johnson county against the defendant, the coroner of said county, to recover the possession of certain personal property described in the pleadings. The petition alleged ownership' and right of immediate possession, and was further framed seemingly with the idea of basing the claim to recover the possession of the property on its being exempt from process, but if this idea ever obtained, it was abandoned during or before *861tlxe trial. The property was alleged in the petition to be of the value of $500. Defendant filed…