Gilman v. Williams
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR TO JEFEERSOST CIRCUIT COURT. This was an. action brought by the respondents against the appellant for the recovery of two horses, of the value of five hundred dollars.
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ERROR TO JEFEERSOST CIRCUIT COURT. This was an. action brought by the respondents against the appellant for the recovery of two horses, of the value of five hundred dollars. The defendant justified the taking of the said property by-virtue of an execution issued out of the district court of the United States to him as deputy marshal of the district of Wisconsin, against the goods and chattels, &c,, of the said respond-ants, upon a judgment rendered in said court against them, and claimed that by reason of the said levy the said chattels from thenceforth remained in the custody of the law: to…
1Opinion of the Court
*333 By the Court,
Smith, J.
This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Jefferson county. The action was in replevin, or in the nature of replevin brought by the respondents against the appellant for the recovery of two horses, or a span of horses, alleged to have been taken on execution issued out of the district court of the United States upon a judgment rendered therein against the respondents, by the appellant, as deputy marshal, the respondents claiming the same as exempt from levy and sale under the exemption law of the State.
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