French v. Woodward

The plaintiff, French, brought his action in the Audrain Circuit Court, against the defendants,Woodward and Barada, charging them with taking and converting to their own use certain personal property of his. They, in addition to other matter set up in their answer, justified under an execution placed in the hands of Barada, one of the defendants, US' deputy constable. It was developed in the pleadings, and also in the evidence adduced at the trial, that Barada, at the time of the levy of the writ, was city marshal of the city of Mexico, and held an appointment also, as the deputy of…