R. Boaz & Co. v. Schneider & Davis

Willie, Chief Justice.

This was a proceeding for the trial of the right of property in a stock of goods attached at the suit of Schneider v. Davis as belonging to the firm of Boaz & Williams, and claimed by the appellants. The officer who levied *130the attachment did not state in whose possession he found the goods, but the appellees assumed the burden of proof, and for this reason the appellants contend that the question of possession is eliminated from the case, and admitted to have been in them at the time of the levy. Our statute provides that if the property is taken from the possession of…