Pike v. Baker

This was an action of replevin, in the McLean circuit court, brought by Elizabeth Baker against Ivory H. Pike, for the recovery of a horse. The declaration avers that appellant took and unjustly detained the property, as described in the affidavit. A plea of non deiinet was filed; also a plea of property in William Baker, and a plea of justification under an execution from a justice of the peace, in which Cravath and others were plaintiffs, and William Baker was defendant, and that appellant, as constable, seized the horse under the execution, as the property of William Baker, as he lawfully…