70 Mo. App. 509 | Mo. Ct. App. | 1897
The petition alleges that plaintiff, W. W. Hays, was sheriff of Sedgwick county, Kansas; that the coplaintiff, the Oliver & Imboden Company, was incorporated and is engaged in business in that state; that defendant replevied certain personal property from said parties in the district court of Sedgwick county, Kansas; that upon a trial of said suit judgment was rendered for the defendants therein for the redelivery of the property, or failing that, the recovery of $378.50 and costs. The petition alleges that said judgment, was not complied with, wherefore the defendants therein bring the present action.
The answer denies that the defendant herein authorized the suit in question, denies that he received any property thereunder, or that any was taken from the defendants in said suit, and further denies that the judgment sued on is valid.
The reply is a general denial. The cause was submitted to the circuit court without a jury, and judg