Leavenworth v. Bank of Gillett
Opinion of the Court
George Leavenworth, the plaintiff in error, sued the Bank of Gillett, R. H. Elliott, the sheriff of Arkansas City, and the sureties on his bond for $15,000 damages because, as he alleged, the sheriff, under an attachment caused to be issued by the bank in a suit to which the plaintiff was not a party, seized and took from his possession 1,180,679 feet of his logs which he had caused to be cut from his land, described as private survey No. 2400 in Arkansas-county, and banked on the river to be floated to the mills. By their answer the defendants admitted that the plaintiff was the owner of private survey No. 2400, but denied that the logs which they seized came from that survey, or that the plaintiff was the owner of the logs that they seized, or that the logs were worth $15,000, or any other sum, and alleged that the only logs they seized were logs from timber cut from lands belonging to the Bank of Gillett. The issues thus made were tried by a jury, which returned a verdict for the defendants.
The plaintiff assigns several alleged errors which it is unnecessary to-consider. One which demands consideration is that the court below held during the trial of the case and charged the jury that the sheriff seized only 502,000 feet of logs under the attachment. There was substantial conflicting testimony as tc the amount seized by the sheriff and
“The Court:
“Q. How many were attached? A. The whole thing.
“Q. The whole million? A. Yes, sir; so X understand.
“Mr. Coleman:
“Q. Do you know? A. They had them advertised for sale.
“The Court:
“Q. By the sheriff? A. Xes, sir.
“Q. How does it come they recovered 600 and some odd thousand feet? A. That was the next year.
“Q. I mean, were they sold by the sheriff? A. No, sir; wouldn’t nobody bid on the gum and stun there not down.
“Q. You say it wasn’t sold? A. All of it wasn’t sold.
“Q. It was abandoned and Mr. Kimble took charge of it again? A. Yes, sir; we went there next year and put out six hundred and eleven thousand or ten thousand feet and hauled it out and delivered it.
“Mr. Coleman:
“Q. Another question. These logs were hauled there for the purpose of floating them down to market? A. How is that?
“Q. These logs were hauled there for the purpose of-floating them down to market? A. Yes, sir; sure.
“Q. Now, did you have any water between June, 1917, and April 1919, when you could have floated these logs? A. Did we have any water? We had water in April.
“Q. April what year? A. Of 1918.
“Q. Sufficient water to float these logs? A. Yes, sir.
“Q. Were you there at that time? A. No, sir; I wasn’t there at that time.
“Q. Oh, well, you don’t know anything about it? A. Yes, sir; I know.
“The Court:
“Q. You knew there was high water? A. Yes, sir; I knew there was high water at the time it was up there, but I weren’t there.”
Reference
- Full Case Name
- LEAVENWORTH v. BANK OF GILLETT
- Status
- Published