Dooley v. Pease
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT. This was an action brought on June 25, 1895, in the Circuit Court of the United- States for the Northern District of Illinois, by Michael F. Dooley, as receiver of the First National Bank of Willimantic, Connecticut, against James Pease, a citizen of the State of Illinois.
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT. This was an action brought on June 25, 1895, in the Circuit Court of the United- States for the Northern District of Illinois, by Michael F. Dooley, as receiver of the First National Bank of Willimantic, Connecticut, against James Pease, a citizen of the State of Illinois. The declaration complained of a trespass by the defendant, who was sheriff of Cook County,. Illinois, in levying upon and taking possession of a stock of silk goods, in a store room in the city of Chicago, which were claimed by the plaintiff to belong to him.…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. J ustice Shiras
delivered the opinion of the court.
Among other questions passed upon by the Circuit Court was whether. tbe alleged sale of goods by the Natchaug Silk Company, through J. D. Chaffee, its president, to Dooley, as receiver of the First National Bank of Willimantic, either as payment in part, or as security for payment, of the debt of the silk company to the bank, was accompanied or followed .by the open, visible and. notorious change of possession, required by the law of the State of Illinois.
It is conceded, or, if not conceded, we. regard it as well established, that the…
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