Dodson v. Cooper
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Butler District Court. On December 18, 1884, R. H. Cooper brought his action against H. T. Dodson for ten thousand dollars damages for the wrongful conversion of a general stock of merchandise, consisting of hats, caps, boots, shoes, carpets, notions, etc., of the value of six thousand dollars, which the plaintiff alleged he was the owner of on November 27, 1884, at the time the same was seized and taken possession of by the defendant.
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Error from Butler District Court. On December 18, 1884, R. H. Cooper brought his action against H. T. Dodson for ten thousand dollars damages for the wrongful conversion of a general stock of merchandise, consisting of hats, caps, boots, shoes, carpets, notions, etc., of the value of six thousand dollars, which the plaintiff alleged he was the owner of on November 27, 1884, at the time the same was seized and taken possession of by the defendant. The answer alleged, first, a general denial; second, that at the time of the alleged conversion Dodson was the sheriff of Butler county, and that on…
1Opinion of the Court
*349The opinion of the court was delivered by
Horton, C. J.:
On November 27, 1884, writs of attachment in favor of certain creditors of Horace Blakely were placed in the hands of H. T. Dodson, sheriff of Butler county, for service. Upon that day he levied the writs on a general stock of merchandise, as the property of Blakely, but claimed to have been purchased by R. H. Cooper, in good faith and for a valuable consideration, prior to the attachments. Dodson, for the attaching creditors, contended that Cooper and Blakely entered into a conspiracy to make a pretended sale of the goods from Blakely to…
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