Jordan v. Harris, Weeks & Co.
Mississippi Supreme Court
In error from the Circuit Court of Leake county. Hon. E. G. Henry, judge. The case is fully stated in the opinion of the court. Cited Ingersoll v. Kendall, IB S. & M. 611, 615; Crarland v. Stewart, Yerger, MSS. Cited 2 Kent, Com. 495; MPonald v. Kewett, 15 Johns. B., 394; Sanson v. Myers, 6 East. E. 614; Armstrong y. Stovall, 26 Miss. E. 281; 2 Black. Com. 307.
1Opinion of the CourtHandy, J.
The defendants in error issued an attachment against one Young, which was levied upon two bales of cotton. The plaintiff in error made claim to the property, and gave bond to try the right under the statute.
Upon the trial it appeared, that before the levy of the attachment, the cotton had been taken by Young to the gin of one Slaughter, to be ginned as Young’s cotton, and that it was then weighed in the seed; that several days before the levy of the .attachment, Young proposed to Jordan, to sell him all his cotton then at Slaughter’s gin, which was the cotton in controversy; that Jordan…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- United States v. LinnSupreme Court of the United States · 1841
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