Stilson v. Gibbs

The grievance alleged by the plaintiff in this case is that the defendant took from his possession his crop of wheat, then harvested and in the mow in his barn, and proceeded to thresh the same with an imperfect machine, whereby much of it was wasted, and that he carried away the remainder without leaving sufficient for six months’ provision for the plaintiff and his family. When the proof was introduced it appeared that the alleged wrong was the act of one Montague, a deputy of the defendant, who was then sheriff of the county of Kalamazoo, and that what Montague did was under the *44pretended…