§ 85-3-9. Replevy by defendant
85-3-9. Replevy by defendant
Any defendant whose exempt property is seized may replevy the same by giving bond with sureties, to be approved by the officer seizing it, in double the value of the property, payable to the plaintiff in the execution or attachment, and conditioned to have the property forthcoming, to abide the event of an issue to be made up at the return term of the process; and in such case the officer shall deliver the property to the defendant, and return the bond with the process; and at the return term an issue shall be made up under the direction of the court, and tried, as in case of the trial of the right of property levied upon and claimed by a third person, and if found for defendant he shall recover costs, damages, and a penalty of twenty dollars of the plaintiff and his sureties on the bond of indemnity, if any have been given; but if found for plaintiff, he shall have judgment against the obligors in the replevy bond for the value of the property and costs of suit.