Case Name: Seymour Cooper v. Horace Tompkins
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1880-04-28
Citations: 43 Mich. 406
Docket Number: 
Parties: Seymour Cooper v. Horace Tompkins.
Judges: The other Justices concurred.
Reporter: Michigan Reports
Volume: 43
Pages: 406–406

Head Matter:
Seymour Cooper v. Horace Tompkins.
Replevin for goods taken by United States marshals.
Replevin lies against a United States deputy marshal to recover goods belonging to the plaintiff and attached by defendant under process against another person.
Error to Eaton.
Submitted April 20.
Decided April 28.
Replevin. Plaintiff brings error.
Cobb & Baird and M. V. Montgomery for plaintiff in error.
Simonds é Fletcher for defendant in error.
Replevin lies in a State court for property wrongfully levied upon by a federal officer. Buck v. Colbath 3 Wal. 334.

Opinion:
Marston, C. J.
This was an action of replevin brought to recover possession of property of the appraised value of $341.24. The defendant as a deputy of the United States marshal for the Western District of Michigan filed a plea that he had seized the property under a writ of attachment issued out of the Circuit Court of the United States for said Western District against the goods and chattels of Charles Hagner. Cooper claiming the property as his, sued out this writ. The ease comes within and is clearly covered by the decision of this court in Carew v. Matthews 41 Mich. 576, and no farther discussion is necessary at present.
The judgment must be reversed with costs and the cause remanded for farther proceedings.
The other Justices concurred.