Spalding v. Preston

This is an action of trover, against the sheriff of Caledonia county, for eleven hundred pieces of German silver, of the precise size and thickness of Mexican dollars, and made in that form for the purpose of being stamped and milled into counterfeit coin of that description. The defendant took them within his own county, from one Russell, who is shown by the case to have been Carrying them, at the time, to a place of manufacture, for the purpose of having them finished, so that he could put them in circulation, as genuine coin. They were originally taken from Russell, and are still detained,…