Whitney v. Gretna State Bank

Ragan, C.

This is an action in replevin for a stock of goods, brought in the district court of Sarpy county by the *439Gretna State Bank against Howard Whitney, sheriff of said county. The bank’s claim was that the goods belonged to A. U. Hancock; that he became indebted to it, the bank, in a large sum of money and pledged the goods by chattel mortgage to it to secure his debt. The sheriff claimed that the goods, after and before the making of the bank’s mortgage, were the property of A. U. Hancock and S. E. Wolverton; that these two parties were copartners; that he had seized the goods as theirs…