Coffin v. McClure

This was a proceeding supplementary to execution. If the attorneys who conducted the case below had taxed their wits to the utmost to complicate the record with useless matter, and then had induced the clerk, in making out the transcript, to take pains to put every thing into the precise place where it did not belong, they could not have succeeded any better than they have done.

The proceeding was begun, as the statute requires, (2 Q-. & H. 261, sec. 522,) by an affidavit of the appellant, Coffin, setting forth that he had recovered a judgment against the Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad…