Marshall v. McNeal

McNeal levied a fi. fa. which he had obtained against Bethesda Baptist Church and Robert Wells and others, deacons’ thereof, upon the lot and building of that church, to which property Marshall and others as trustees filed a claim. At the. trial the plaintiff’s counsel demanded a response to a notice to produce certain papers, which had been duly served upon claimants’ counsel, who in response thereto said that his clients were notin court, and he had been unable to secure their presence since the case was called, *623and knew of no lawful reason why they were not present; that he was not able to…