Cheney v. Bonnell

This was an action of trespass de bonis asportatis, brought by appellee, in the Jersey circuit court, against appellant, to recover the value of five hundred bushels of wheat. It appears that appellee recovered two judgments for different sums, before a justice of the peace, against one Edward McGown. On the same day of their rendition, executions were sworn out and levied on thirty acres of growing wheat and one-third of eighteen acres of other growing wheat, which was sold by the constable and bought by appellee for $15. Ho question is raised on the regularity of the sale. It appears that…