Missouri Court of Appeals February 27, 1900 (Livingston v. Allen)

BIGGS, J.

This is an action of replevin instituted in November, 1897. The defendant answered that he was sheriff of Howell county, and that he held the goods by virtue of a levy on them under an execution issued on a transcript judgment by the circuit court of the city of St. Louis in favor of the Singer Sewing Machine Company and against the plaintiff.