Dallavo v. Morse
Dallavo v. Morse
Opinion of the Court
Plaintiff brought replevin to recover 20,000 feet of hemlock lumber, which he purchased from one Douglas, who got his title through an execution sale.
“Sheriff’s Sale.
“Notice is hereby given that by virtue of a writ of fieri facias issued out of the circuit court for the county of Montcalm, dated August 8, 1895, in favor of George Douglas, as plaintiff, against the goods and chattels and real estate of Jacob J. Hatinger, as defendant, in said county, to me directed and delivered, I have this day levied on and taken the following goods and chattels, that is to say: 75,000 feet of lumber, in 45 piles, consisting of birch, ash, elm, maple, pine, and oak lumber, and now piled and situated on the mill yard of the said Jacob J. Hatinger, near Kirby Lake, in the township of Home, in the county of Montcalm and State of Michigan, all of which I shall expose for sale and sell at public vendue to the highest bidder at the mill yard of the said Jacob J. Hatinger, near Kirby Lake, in the township of Home, in the county of Montcalm, Michigan, on the 22d day of August next, A. D. 1895, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon of said day.
“Charles M. King, Sheriff.”
There were 6 or 7 other piles of lumber in the yard at the time of the levy. At the sheriff’s sale, Mr. Douglas "bought the lumber. Before the sheriff’s sale, defendant, Morse, bought the hemlock lumber in controversy from Mr. Hatinger, and Mr. Dallavo knew he claimed to be the owner of the lumber before he purchased from Douglas. The circuit judge held that the notice of sale was not simply irregular or defective, but that there was no notice of a sale of hemlock lumber. Plaintiff offered to show by parol that the hemlock was intermingled in the
Judgment is affirmed.
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