Crane v. Lewis

The judgment of the court (King, J. absent,) was pronounced by

Eustis, C. J.

On. the 13th of March, 1848, Henry Crane, residing in the city of New Orleans, brought a suit by attachment in the Fourth District court of New Orleans against J. C. McGrew, a resident of the State of Alabama. Under the writ of attachment, the sheriff seized certain negroes belonging to McGrew, which were delivered to him, on the execution of a bond to the sheriff by McGrew, with Rhodes, Wright S¡- Co., as his sureties. On the 14th of June, 1848, the plaintiff obtained judgment against the said McGrew for the sum of…