Dudley v. Lamoille Co. Nat. Bank

Wheeler, D. J.

The principal and controlling question in this ease is whether the plaintiff, as deputy sheriff, could maintain an attachment of horses on the farm of the owner who did not reside upon it, through a receiptor who obtained the record title to the farm for the purpose of keeping the horses there, and the direction and control of *218the agents of the owner, in charge of the farm, for him, one of whom was hired and placed in chief control after the attachment was made. There is no question of fraud in law arising out of possession by the vendor of personal property after a sale. On…