Ferguson v. Day

This was an action in replevin, instituted by the appellants, Francis M. Ferguson, Mary Ferguson and Emma Ferguson, as partners doing business under the firm name of Oliver Ferguson & Son, against the appellee Robert Day, as sheriff of Lawrence county, to recover the possession of a large amount of personal property, consisting of horses, mules, harness, wagons, carts, scrapers, plows, and other articles belonging to the appellants, and used by them as such partners in the operation of their business as railroad contractors then engaged in constructing a railroad.

Judgment was rendered in…