Pleasants v. Ross

The petition stated that the defendant, as sheriff levied an attachment against the goods of one Da *115 vis, on certain good of the plaintiff. To prove the propertym Davis was offered as a witness, the goods having been entrusted to him, to bring them to New-Orleans andsell them on commission, and left by him in the store of the person in whose hands they were attached-but the Court (Martin, J. alone) rejected his testimony.