Haworth v. Newell
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Polk District Court. — Hon. C. P. Holmes, Judge. Action at law to recover the value of a sealskin cloak taken from the plaintiff by virtue of a search warrant. The defendants appeal from an order of the district ■■court, which sustained' a motion to strike portions of an answer, from a judgment on the pleadings rendered in favor of the plaintiff, and from an order overruling a motion for a new trial. —
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
— The petition states that the plaintiff is the owner of a sealskin cloak which the defendant George McNutt took from her residence in Des Moines on the twenty-sixth day of October, 1893', by virtue of a ■search warrant; that she acquired such ownership by purchase, and was in rightful possession of the cloak, and the defendants, wrongfully took it from her, and now wrongfully detain it from her, in Polk county; and that it is of the actual value of four hundred dollars. *543'Alleged copies of the 'application for a search warrant, of the warrant and a return thereon, and of 'the record-in the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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