Davis v. Ransom
Illinois Supreme Court
This was au action of replevin in the cletinet. The defendant pleaded non detinet; a plea averring that property was hi one Sexton, and that certain persons had recovered judgment against Sexton in the United States Court for the ¡Northern District of Illinois, upon which execution had been issued, and that the marshal had levied upon these goods by virtue thereof, and a plea of property in Sexton and not in the plaintiffs.
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This was au action of replevin in the cletinet. The defendant pleaded non detinet; a plea averring that property was hi one Sexton, and that certain persons had recovered judgment against Sexton in the United States Court for the ¡Northern District of Illinois, upon which execution had been issued, and that the marshal had levied upon these goods by virtue thereof, and a plea of property in Sexton and not in the plaintiffs. To these pleas there was a replication, joinder, etc., and issue to the country. There was a trial by jury, and a finding for the plaintiffs in replevin, with five cents…
1Opinion of the CourtSkinner, J.
This was an action of replevin by Eansom and Cates against Davis, to recover a stock of goods. Davis justified the taking, under an execution to him directed, as marshal of the northern district of Elinois, issued out of the circuit court of the United States for said district against Sexton, in whose possession the goods were at the time of the taking and seizure. The plaintiffs below, to prove property in them, upon the trial read in evidence, a chattel mortgage of the stock of goods executed to them by Sexton. This instrument recites that Sexton is indebted to divers persons, among whom…
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