Piner v. Cover
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Knox county; the Hon. Arthur A. Smith, Judge, presiding. This was an action of replevin, brought in the court below, by Finer against Cover. A trial resulted in a verdict and judgment in favor of the defendant. The plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breese
This was an action of replevin, brought to the Knox circuit court, for a brick kiln, which the plaintiff claimed to have purchased from Milton Grim, on the fourteenth day of June, 1869, and which the defendant claimed to hold, as constable, on a writ of attachment issued against Grim, on the thirty-first of July, 1869, and levied on the fourteenth of August, 1869.
Exceptions were taken to the instructions given on behalf of the defendant, and among them the second and third. The second instruction is as follows:
“ The jury are instructed, if they find from the evidence that the arrangement made…
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