Beall v. Barclay

Judge Geaham

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The appellees, complainants in the Circuit Court, by proper allegations in their bill, obtained an attachment, on a tract of five hundred and eighty-one acres, and one of twenty-nine acres of land, the property of Harrison, to satisfy a debt which Harrison, with other obligors, who are insolvent, owed to them. The bill was filed and process issued thereon, on the 6th January, 1844. Several executions had previously issued against Harrison’s estate, and were then in the hands of the Sheriff. After process had been served on Harrison, he in…