Lasar

Action of claim and delivery of certain persona] property in the possession of the defendant Graves, as sheriff of Monterey County, under an attachment issued in an action brought by the defendant Lasar against certain vendors of the plaintiffs.

The plaintiffs were creditors of the firm of S. Houghton & Sons to the amount of several thousand dollars, and on May 21,1888, bought from them certain personal property, consisting of hogs, horses, and other cattle, including that described in the complaint, taking from them a bill of sale therefor, and crediting the agreed price upon their account against them. At the time of *225 the purchase the property was delivered to the plaintiffs, and placed by them in the possession of one Worley as their agent, and was kept by him in the same pasture in which it had been previously kept by the Houghtons» until taken by the sheriff as hereinafter stated. In July of that year, the defendant Lasar sued out a writ of attachment in an action brought by him against the Houghtons, under which the sheriff took possession of the property described in the complaint, and in December following, Lasar commenced another action against, the same defendants,…