Van Buren v. Armstrong-Jewell Construction Co.

Plaintiffs had judgment against defendant corporation. An execution was issued and at once placed in the hands of the sheriff. He retained it until the day following the return day, when he returned it “wholly unsatisfied.”

Plaintiffs filed this judgment creditors’ bill seeking to reach assets of the judgment debtor in the hands of the individual defendants. Prom a decree for plaintiffs, defendants have appealed.

A plaintiff, to maintain such a bill, must ordinarily show that he is remediless at law, “and of this the issuance of an execution and its return unsatisfied are the most acceptable…