Boylan's Detective Agency & Protection Police v. Arthur A. Brown & Co.

The plaintiff sued the defendant Brown & Co., for $868 for watching freight while in transit, but temporarily on the Celeste street wharf in this city awaiting shipment to Havana, Cuba. Asserting a lien and privilege on the property and alleging “fears that the defendant Brown & Co. will conceal, part with, or dispose of said property in its possession during the pendency of the suit,” the plaintiff caused a writ of sequestration to issue and various lots and different kinds of movable property situated on said wharf to be seized.

The two interveners named in the title, as well as others who…