Heilbronner v. Levy

The plaintiff’s assignor, Leopold Wirth, recovered a judgment against the defendant in an action before a justice of the peace, and filed a transcript thereof with the clerk of the circuit court. An execution upon the judgment was thereupon issued out of the latter court, and in due time was returned,,by the sheriff wholly unsatisfied. Wirth then assigned the judgment to the plaintiff, who in*637stituted a supplementary proceeding before a court commissioner, who issued an order requiring the defendant to appear before him and answer concerning his property. The defendant appeared as required,…