Torrey v. Burnett

*458The opinion of the 'Court was delivered by

Beasley, Chief Justice.

This is an action on the case for an injury to the reversion. The plaintiffs were the owners of the land, and one Isaac H. Tice was their tenant. The defendants are creditors of Tice, and upon his leaving the state they took out an attachment, and, entering on these premises, which had been leased to their debtor, took down and carried away a steam engine, put up by him, and it is this act that forms the ground of this action. In the damages ■recovered by the plaintiffs is included the value of this engine.

The contention…