Blood v. Barnes

This was an action of replevin, brought to the June term, 1874, of the Knox circuit court, by Charlotte A. Barnes, against Bolivar Blood, for a lot of types and material used in printing the “Galesburg Free Press.”

The defendant, who was a constable of the county, pleaded several pleas, among them, that the articles were the property of M. S. Barnes, the husband of the plaintiff, and justifying the taking in virtue of an execution in his hands, issued by the police magistrate, in the suit of W. C. Clarke against the said M. S. Barnes, and levied bv him on the property in question.

The jury…