Jones v. Baird

Action by the appellant for the recovery of personal property. The appellees answered by a general denial, and by a special plea,.to the effect that the defendant Baird, the sheriff of the county, had seized the property by virtue of an execution issued to him against the property of *165one Eaglehoff; that Eaglehoff had no other property subject to levy, and that with intent to cheat, hinder and delay his creditors, and especially the plaintiff in said execution, Eaglehoff had made a pretended sale of the property to the appellant, who knew and intended to aid Eaglehoff’s fraudulent purpose. The…