Johnson v. State Bank

Doster, O. J.

This case comes to us upon a certificate of division of the judges of the Court of Appeals of the Northern Department. The firm of Jordan Brothers recovered'judgment against Mrs. S. C. Sherman, a merchant. Execution upon this judgment was issued to the plaintiff in error, a constable. He levied it upon goods in possession of the defendant in error, which thereupon brought suit against him for dam*251ages for conversion, alleging itself to be the owner of the property. To its petition the plaintiff in error' defendant below, filed an answer justifying himself as constable ; denying…