Chavez v. McKnight

By Court,

Brocchus, J.:

This was a bill in chancery before Chief Justice Deaven-port, in the district court for the first judicial district, by Manuela Antonia Chavez, seeking relief against two executions upon judgments obtained by William S. MoKnight against Jose Maria Gutieres, the husband of the petitioner, which executions were levied upon property in the possession of said Jose Maria Gutieres, and upon which the said Manuela Antonia Chavez claimed to have a prior lawful lien. The petitioner alleged that some time in the year 1826 she was married to one Jose Maria Gutieres, in the…