Bullock v. Narrott

This was an action of replevin, in the Woodford Circuit Court, by Dennis Harrott against Winfield M. Bullock, the sheriff of that county, who had levied an execution upon the property in question, issued in favor of Backnell & McKinney, out of the clerk’s office of the circuit court of Woodford, against Joseph Jacquin, bearing date September 30, 1867.

It appeared the property belonged to Jacquin, and was claimed by the plaintiff under a chattel mortgage executed to him by Jacquin, dated July 26, 1866, duly acknowledged and recorded, to secure the payment of a note of the same date, for $300.'…