Carroll v. Watkins
District Court, S.D. Mississippi
Hearing upon a bill in equity. This bill was filed by Messrs. Carroll & Hay against Watkins, as assignee in bankruptcy of J. B. Moore and others, to enforce their claim to priority of payment out of the assets in the assignee’s hands. Carroll & Hay were commission merchants in Nk w Orleans, and obtained judgment in the circuit court of the United States, sitting in the southern district of Mississippi, against Moore, who was formerly in business as a retail merchant.
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Hearing upon a bill in equity. This bill was filed by Messrs. Carroll & Hay against Watkins, as assignee in bankruptcy of J. B. Moore and others, to enforce their claim to priority of payment out of the assets in the assignee’s hands. Carroll & Hay were commission merchants in Nk w Orleans, and obtained judgment in the circuit court of the United States, sitting in the southern district of Mississippi, against Moore, who was formerly in business as a retail merchant. This judgment was never enrolled in the county in which Moore resided, and in which the property involved in this litigation…
1Opinion of the Court
HILL, District Judge.
This is a bill filed by the complainants against Watkins, as-signee of Moore, pyaying that the lands surrendered by Moore shall be sold, and the proceeds applied to the payment of their judgment against Moore, recovered in the circuit court of the United States for said district. The other defendants filed their petitions, praying to be made parties to this cause; and that said lands be sold and the proceeds applied to the payment of their judgments, obtained in the circuit court of this state for the county of Scott. The judgment of complainants was obtained pri- or to…
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