Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court November 15, 1866 (Leggett v. Baker)

Foster, J.

This is an action of tort, with one count in trespass quare clausum, and one in the nature of trover, against a deputy sheriff to recover damages for attaching the goods of the plaintiff upon a writ against Eli Thayer, Jr., who became an insolvent debtor a few days after the attachment, and before the trial of the present cause. .