Case Name: Joseph N. Arnold versus Ezekiel Bailey and Others
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1811-10
Citations: 7 Tyng 145
Docket Number: 
Parties: Joseph N. Arnold versus Ezekiel Bailey and Others.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 8
Pages: 127–127

Head Matter:
Joseph N. Arnold versus Ezekiel Bailey and Others.
In debt on bond to prosecute a writ of replevin, the plaintiff is entitled to recover the value of the goods replevied, with the damages and costs recovered, and interest on such damages and costs from the date of the judgment in replevin, to the time of rendering judgment on the bond.
Debt on a bond conditioned to prosecute a suit in replevin.
The defendants, being defaulted, prayed to be heard in equity. Upon the hearing it appeared that the plaintiff, a deputy sheriff, had attached the goods on mesne process, on which final judgment, had been rendered.
B. Whitman, for the plaintiff,
claimed the amount of that judgment.

Opinion:
But the Court
said that the true measure of the plaintiff's damages in this action was the value of the goods replevied, with the damages and costs recovered in the action of replevin, and interest on the two last articles from the date of the judgment in replevin to the present time.