Wills Point Bank v. Bates, Reed & Cooley

Stayton, Chief Justice.

On the 19th day of January, 1882, Bates, Reed, and Cooley had levied an attachment against Gugenheim & Co. on the property in controversy, and on the 20th day of September, 1883, recovered judgment for their debt against Gugenheim & Co., with a foreclosure of their attachment lien—the judgment directing that the order of sale should be suspended to await the result of this suit.

The defendant bank asserts that on the 17th day of January, 1882, two days prior to the levy of the plaintiffs’ writ, Gugenheim & Co. were indebted to it in the sum of about $6300, and that in…