Randegger v. Ehrhardt

This was an action of replevin commenced by defendants in error in the St. Clair Circuit Court, against plaintiff in error, for the recovery of a small steam engine. It appears that the administrator of Abraham Anderson, deceased, about the 13th day of February, 1868, sold a portion of the real estate which had belonged to deceased in his lifetime, for the payment of debts; that defendants in error purchased a brewery at the sale, and it is claimed that the engine and its attachments belonged to and passed with the brewery; or, at least, if it was not a portion of the realty, that plaintiff…