Lewis v. Smith

The plaintiff, as mortgagee, and claiming the right of possession under two chattel mortgages, *558sued, the three defendants to recover actual and exemplary damages, which she says they caused her by seizing and converting to their own use these chattels, in furtherance of a conspiracy into which they entered for such purpose. The defendants answered separately, denying the conspiracy, the seizure and conversion of any of the property covered by the mortgages, and also their validity, and justified the seizure and sale by defendant Wallace as special constable, of certain chattels belonging to…