Blankinship v. Oklahoma City Light & Water Power Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

MoAtee, J.:

This suit was brought by the Southern Distilling company in the probate court of Oklahoma county on the 6th day of July, 1893, against the defendants, to recover two barrels of whiskey, or their value, alleged at one hundred and sixty dollars.

A general denial was filed by all the defendants except Clark and White, who answered that they held the whiskey in controversy by reason of writs of attachment placed in tbeir hands as constables of Oklahoma county, Oklahoma Territory, and that the property in said whiskey was in M. Winter.

It was…