National City Bank v. Stupp Bros. Bridge & Iron Co.

The appellee sued out an attachment in chancery under section 536, Code of 1906 (section 293, Hemingway’s Code), making as defendants thereto the National City Bank of St. Louis, Mo., and the Jackson State National Bank of Jackson, Miss. The bill alleged, in substance, that S. J. Riley had a contract with the board of supervisors of Lowndes county and the state highway department, to do certain work, and executed to the appellee, for a valuable consideration, an assignment of all money to be paid to him thereunder; that subsequent thereto the state highway department issued to Riley a warrant…