Supreme Court of the United States January 18, 1862 (Dermott v. Wallach)

Mr. Justice NELSON.

This action was replevin, brought by the plaintiff below, Wallach, against the defendant, for taking certain goods and chattels of the plaintiff from a house called the Avenue House, situated in the city of Washington.

The defendant pleaded:. 1. That the goods and chattels in the declaration mentioned were not the property of the plain-, tiff. 2.