McLear v. Morgan

About the 1st of May, 1840, a most grievous assault and battery, was committed by Morgan, Dorsey, McKale •and Segar, upon the body of one William Grady, at his own house, after dark, and on the 2d of June following, he commenced a joint action against them, in which he recovered a judgment at the September Term following,' against the three former, for $4000 and costs ; a nolle prossequi having been entered, as to the latter. McKale was insolvent, and Morgan, after the battery, and about the time of the institution of the suit, made a conveyance *283of his house and mill, and a tract of land of…