Rogers v. Gilmore

Citations

• 51 Cal. 309

Syllabus

<p>Attachment of Pkbsonal Pbopeety.—If a sheriff attaches personal property, consisting of a portable steam threshing engine and accompanying articles used for threshing, by making a memorandum of the property and delivering a copy of the attachment, summons, and complaint, to the defendant, and then directing verbally a person who is at work one hundred yards from the place where the property lies to look after it. and if any one meddles with it to tell them it is attached, he has sufficient custody of the property as against persons purchasing it from the defendant with knowledge of the attachment.</p>