Allen v. Lott-Lewis Co.

This was a contest for certain funds in the hands of the sheriff as the proceeds of a lot of lumber. Lott-Lewis Company brought a rule against the sheriff to require him to pay the money over to them on their sawmill-supply man’s lien for supplies furnished one Brady, the proprietor of the sawmill which manufactured the lumber; and Allen, the plaintiff in error, intervened, setting up a claim to the fund. In brief, Allen’s intervention sets up that the lumber which was sold under Lott-Lewis Company’s lien as the property of the sawmill man, Brady, did not belong to Brady at all, but was, at…