White v. Mitchell

In this case trover was brought by the original vendors of goods against a sheriff who had seized them on attachment before they had come into the purchaser’s possession. The purchaser made his *392bargain on the 19th of May, 1876; the goods were sent from New York on the 22d May, directed to the purchaser, one Christian Sternhagen, at East Saginaw, and arrived at that place on or before May 29th. On May 23d Sternhagen absconded and never came back. On the 24th his stock of goods was all taken on a chattel mortgage and his store closed.

On the 29th attachments were sued out. On the same day the…