Huff v. Earl

This was an action of debt, brought by the appellant against the appellees, upon a replevin-bond.

The declaration alleges that, on the 22d of February, 1840, one Forseman, who has since died, filed in the office of the-clerk of the Fountain Circuit Court, an affidavit stating, that the affiant and Earl, one of the defendants in the present suit, were the joint owners of the pork, hams, and lard of 510 hogs, which were unjustly detained from them by John Sherry, William Sherry, Montgomery Sherry, Jacob Sherry, and Jesse Sherry; whereupon a writ of replevin issued, by virtue of which the sheriff…