Crump v. Starke

delivered the opinion of tile court-..

Crenshaw and Chambers were plaintiffs in an execution against James B. Harris; Kortricht was their attorney, and Crump was the sheriff of Crittenden county. Crump lévied on thirteen bales of cotton as the property of Harris, which Starke claimed; a contest was had in a trial of the right of property before the sheriff, which resulted in nothing, as the jury could not agree upon a verdict, and was discharged by the sheriff, with the consent of the parties. Kortrieht had been the attorney of Crenshaw and Chambers in the suit in which judgment was rendered,…