Mugford v. Rival Foods, Inc.

These are two actions of tort to recover damages for the conversion of certain personal property which was subject to' a mortgage held by the plaintiff. The alleged conversion arose out of an attachment and subsequent sale on execution of the property involved. The defendant corporation was the attaching creditor and the defendant White the deputy sheriff who made the attachment and conducted the “execution” sale. The cases were tried to a jury, which returned a verdict for the plaintiff in each case. Before recording the verdicts the judge reserved leave to enter verdicts for the defendants,…