Matlock v. Strange

This was a trial of the right of property commenced before a justice of the peace of Warren county. The property was claimed by Strange, the appellee, who filed an affidavit wherein- it is alleged that he is the absolute owner of fiftyrthree acres of standing corn, and that one Cornelius White, sheriff of said county, had, by virtue of an execution issued from the Hendricks Common Pleas, in favor of Jesse T. Matlock and against one Edward Strange, levied upon the standing corn, &e. Matlock, by his attorney, appeared before the justice and resisted the claim. The cause was submitted to a jury…