Pan-American Amusement Co. v. Maguire

LOWELL, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called 'the plaintiff, brought an action of replevin against the defendant in *127error, a deputy sheriff, hereinafter called the defendant. The goods replevied were theatrical properties which the defendant had taken on attachment in a suit brought in the state court, wherein one Messenger was plaintiff and the Lederer Amusement Company was defendant. In the attachment suit Messenger sued as assignee of a claim of Wanamaker, and caused the goods in question to be attached as the property of the Lederer Company, treating as ineffectual…