If the goods, when replevied, were taken in execution or attached, and judgment is afterwards rendered for the attaching creditor, and if, in either case, the service of the execution is delayed by means of the replevin, the damages assessed for the defendant, upon judgment for a return, shall not be less than 12 percent annually, on the value of the goods, for such time as the service of the execution is so delayed.
12 V.S.A. § 5332