Witherspoon v. Clegg

Witherspoon, being an acting constable of the city of Detroit, received for collection an execution1 on a judgment standing on the docket of Justice Barbier against William C. J. Campau at the suit of Edwin H. Stevens. This suit was dated December 4, 1876, and on the eighth day of that month he levied by virtue of it on a paper boat, which he took to and left at the Excelsior Boat Club in charge of one Plass. On the next day Willemin went to Witherspoon with what purported to be a copy of a mortgage from Campau to John H. Clegg of the boat, together with a buggy and cutter, given to secure a…