Singh v. McKee

— Appellant, a Hindu, brought this action against respondent as sheriff of Washington county to recover posesssion of a wagon and a beet-digging plow which he claimed had been wrongfully taken from his posesssion by the sheriff in the foreclosure of a mortgage given by Fatth Khan, another Hindu, to the Weiser Loan and Trust Company.

The sheriff answered admitting that appellant had owned the wagon and plow, but set up in defense that appellant and Khan had formed a partnership with three other Hindus to carry on certain farming operations in the vicinity of Weiser under the direction and…