Campbell v. . Woodworth
New York Court of Appeals
■ Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court at general term in the seventh district, affirming the judgment upon a verdict at circuit. The facts are stated in the following opinion. The case was submitted on printed arguments.
1Opinion of the CourtDenio, J.
The action was in the nature of trover for the ccnversion of a quantity of dry goods, the stock of T. Chapman, a retail dealer in the city of Rochester. The plaintiff made title to the property under an assignment executed to him by Chapman for the benefit of his creditors. The defendants, who were the sheriff and the under-sheriff of Monroe county, justified taking .it under execution against Chapman. On the trial, the plaintiff, among other evidence, examined merchants and other persons to prove the value of the goods. It appeared that the sheriff had caused them to be sold by an auctioneer…
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