Hewitt v. Buvens

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

Relator, the Simmons Hardware Company, is a creditor of M. F. Buvens. It sued out a writ of attachment upon which the property of the defendant was seized. It avers that immediately after, other creditors of the defendant sued out writs of attachment on suits contemporaneously filed against the same defendant.

There was testimony introduced in the District Court regarding *326the ranking* of the attachments. There was some contradiction among the witnesses. The clerk of the court testified that the writs-in relator’s case and that of Ardis & Co.,…