Brenot

Action of claim and delivery. The complaint alleges that the plaintiff is the owner and entitled to the possession of four mules of the value of four hundred dollars; two double sets of harness of the value of seventy-five dollars; one farm wagon of the value of sixty dollars, and one pair of lead bars, of the valúe of five dollars; all of said property being of the aggregate value of five hundred and forty dollars; that on October 9, 1893, the defendant, as constable of Santa Ana township, in Orange county, without the plaintiff’s consent and against his will, took said articles of personal property from the possession of the plaintiff; that before the commencement of this action the plaintiff demanded of the defendant the possession of said articles of personal property, but the defendant refused to deliver the same. Upon the trial of the action the court found that the plaintiff was the owner of the property, and that the aggregate value of said property at the time it was taken was four hundred and twenty-five dollars, but did not find the particular value of each article. Judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiff for the possession of the property, and, in case delivery…