Thompson v. . Ford

The Court can take no notice of the rights of Ramsour arising out of the filing and prosecution of his bill in the court of equity. It belongs to that court to vindicate its jurisdiction by dealing with persons who violate rights created by a lis pendens there.

Sitting in a court of law, we cannot judicially know how a court of equity will apply an equitable fund of this sort to the satisfaction of creditors, or as between the creditors and the assignee of its owner. We can look only to the legal rights of the parties to this record. But confining ourselves even to that limit, we hold that the…