Greer v. Ferguson
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Cross Appeals from Mississippi Circuit Court in Chancery. Greer & Adams brought suit in chancery to enforce a claim of $4660 against Rerguson & Hampson and Louis Hanauer, alleging that the claim arose out of professional services rendered them in defending their title to certain land. They also procured an attachment to be levied upon the land.
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Cross Appeals from Mississippi Circuit Court in Chancery. Greer & Adams brought suit in chancery to enforce a claim of $4660 against Rerguson & Hampson and Louis Hanauer, alleging that the claim arose out of professional services rendered them in defending their title to certain land. They also procured an attachment to be levied upon the land. The complaint alleged that Ferguson & Hampson had fraudulently conveyed the land to D. H. &. F. P. Poston as trustees to secure a large sum due to Schoolfield, Hanauer & Co., of which-firm Louis Hanauer was a member ; that the trust deed was void on…
1Opinion of the CourtHemingway, J.
Por convenience we may divide the judgment below and treat it, first, as a judgment ■against Perguson & Hampson, and, second, as a judgment against the executors of Hanauer.
Prom the-first the plaintiffs alone appeal; and they ■complain at the court’s action in discharging the attachment, and also in refusing to charge a lien upon the land •to secure a judgment in their favor, it being rendered upon a claim for services as attorneys in defending a former suit against the present defendants for the recovery of the land.
Prom the second both parties have appealed ; the plaintiffs because the sum…
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