83 Iowa 192 | Iowa | 1891
In the year 1889 the plaintiff was a brewer, engaged in business in St. Louis. In May of that year he shipped from St. Louis to Burlington, consigned to himself, a carload of beer. His agents at Burlington were Werthmueller & Ende. After the car containing the beer had been placed on a sidetrack at Burlington, it was opened by the agents named, but on the fifteenth day of May, before the beer had been removed, and while it was in the original casks in which it had been shipped, a part of it, including that in controversy, was seized by the defendant, as sheriff, by virtue of a search-warrant issued under the provisions of section 1544 of the Code. The information on
The judgment of the district court is reversed, and the cause is remanded, with directions to that court to render judgment in favor of the defendant for the amount stated, with interest thereon at six per cent, per annum from the date of its former judgment. Eeveesed.