Marshall v. Wheeler

The defendant, a deputy sheriff, upon receiving a writ directed against the plaintiff in this action and to attach an auto truck which was stored in a barn belonging to the plaintiff’s wife, went to the home of the plaintiff, who, with his wife, had for several months been in the woods engaged in a lumbering operation, and finding the door to the barn locked, went to the house of a neighbor, who, in the absence of the plaintiff, was taking care of his live stock and had the keys to a shed opening into the barn and demanded admission for the purpose of attaching the truck under his precept.

Upon…