Elwell v. Olin

Moulton, Supr. J.

This case comes up on exceptions from the Bennington municipal court. It is an action of replevin for the carcass of a buck deer. The writ directed the officer serving the same to replevy the property and to deliver it to the plaintiff “provided he gives a bond in a penal sum which shall be total the appraised value of said carcass, with sufficient surety or sureties to prosecute his replevin, etc. ’ ’ The writ was served, the carcass replevied, and the officer took a bond for double the value, as the statute directed, and so stated in his return.

The defendants moved to…