Gilbert v. Glenny

This is an appeal by the defendant in the" court below from a judgment in an action of replevin. The affidavit was made before and the writ was issued by a justice of the peace, though the value of the property replevied, an automobile, made a case of which the court below has original jurisdiction. The writ was not executed by either a constable or the sheriff but by J. A. Riddell, who was specially authorized to execute it by the justice of the peace by whom it was issued. Riddell *607seized the automobile, and instead of delivering it together with the writ to the constable or sheriff!, as…