Haley v. Elliott

Kichmond, O.

This was an action of replevin instituted by Haley as plaintiff in the justice’s court, subsequently appealed to the county court of Larimer county, where judgment was rendered against the plaintiff, to reverse which he prosecutes this appeal. The appeal was perfected under the act of 1885.

The undisputed facts are that plaintiff was the owner of two horses, and that on or about November 30,1886, L. H. Breeze, the then county treasurer of Boutt county, seized the horses for an alleged tax due said county, and sold the same at a tax sale, the defendant becoming the purchaser.…