Ross

Action to recover damages for the alleged wrongful attachment of personal property.

Judgment went for plaintiffs, from which defendants, adopting the alternative method in bringing up the record, appeal.

The complaint alleges that at the time of the alleged wrongful acts defendant Thomas was constable of Los Angeles township and his codefendants were his official bondsmen; that W. H. and Sarah A. Stager were husband and wife; that on January 29, 1913, plaintiffs Ross and Sarah A. Stager were the owners of certain personal property situated at No. 253 South Main Street in the city of Los Angeles, consisting, among other things, of a printing press and outfit, a camera and outfit, and a cash register; that Ross was the owner of the title to the property and that Sarah A. Stager was in possession thereof under a certain written contract made between said Ross of the one part and Sarah A. Stager and W. H. Stager of the other part, whereby the former agreed to sell and the latter agreed to buy the property, including that herein specified, for the sum of six thousand five hundred dollars, of which amount Stager and his wife had paid the sum of three thousand two hundred and fifty…