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Plaintiff instituted this action in claim and delivery to recover from defendant the possession of a certain automobile truck or the value of said truck and damages for its detention in case delivery could not be had. The defendant filed an amended answer in which it was alleged that defendant was the regularly elected and duly qualified constable of Escondido Township in the county of San Diego; that an action was brought against plaintiff in the Justice’s Court of Temescal Township, Riverside County, for the recovery of a sum less than $300; that a judgment was rendered against the defendant in said action by the justice of the peace for the sum of $178.19 and costs; that the defendant in said action, plaintiff herein, was a resident of the county of Riverside at the time when the obligation therein sued on was incurred and thereafter departed from Riverside County. The amended answer further contained denials that the truck was of the value alleged in the complaint and that the value of its use was as therein alleged and that the detention of the truck was wrongful. Further allegations contained in the pleadings show that possession of the truck was taken by defendant by virtue…