Prescott v. Starkey

It appeared on the trial in the court below that the defendants Crosby & Adams were proprietors of the Brooks House in Brattleboro, at which the plaintiff, who is an oculist and optician, was a guest; that the defendants brought a suit against the plaintiff upon a claim that was not for the purchase price of the property replevied, and that the defendant Starkey, as a deputy sheriff, served the writ by attaching a trunk containing the personal wearing apparel of the plaintiff and his wife and a certain hand instrument that was used by him in his business in testing eyesight and fitting his…