Kobic v. Reed

Plaintiff brought this action to recover for the conversion of a stock of goods and fixtures located in a store building owned by defendant Reed in the city of Dowagiac. Reed instituted attachment proceedings in justice’s court against plaintiff’s husband, and under the writ of attachment seized the entire stock and the fixtures and later sold them on execution. The two other defendants were the officers who executed the writs. Plaintiff claims to have paid for and to have been the owner of the entire business; a portion of the stock was purchased in South Bend, Indiana, and the bill of sale…