Baldwin v. Talbot

We are of opinion that the court erredi in the instructions given as to the delay of the constable in giving notice of sale under his execution.

An execution was issued by a justice of the peace and! delivered to Baldwin, a constable, who- on the 26th day of' August, 1819, levied upon certain chattels as the property of the execution debtor O. Bobert Talbot. It appeared upon the trial that the property levied upon with other property had previous to the levy been mortgaged by the execution debtor to his mother, the defendant in error. That on the day after the levy one Taylor, acting as her…