ResetAA Font size: Print  United States Supreme Court   No. 20
Argued:     Decided: April 20, 1885  [114 U.S. 270, 272]   A. H.
Garland, R. T. Merrick, and F. S. Blair, Atty. Gen., for
defendant in error.  Wm. L. Royall, D. H. Chamberlain, Wm. M.
Evarts, and Wager Swayne, for plaintiff in error. [114 U.S. 270,
273]     The plaintiff in error, who was also plaintiff below,
brought his action in detinue on the twenty-sixth day of April,
1883, against Samuel C. Greenhow, for the recovery of specific
personal property, to-wit, one office desk of the value of $30,
before a police justice in the city of Richmond, who dismissed
the same for want of Jurisdiction. An appeal was taken by the
plaintiff to the hustings court for the city of Richmond, where
the facts were found by agreement of parties to be as follows:
That the plaintiff was a resident of the city of Richmond, in
the state of Virginia; that he owed to the state of Virginia,
for taxes on property owned by him in said city for the year
1882, $12.45, which