Black v. Clasby

Citations

• 97 Cal. 482
• 32 P. 564
• 1893 Cal. LEXIS 574

Syllabus

<p>Attachment — Seizure of Goods..of Third Persons — Trespass—Demand. — Where, prior to the amendment of 1891 to sections 549 and 689 of the Code of Civil Procedure, a sheriff, under a writ of attachment against one person, seized the goods of another, which, at the time of seizure, -were in ,the custody either of the owner or of a person other than the defendant in the writ, he was a trespasser ab initio, and no previous demand yas necessary to authorize a recovery for such trespass.</p>