Pollard & Co. v. Gibbs

Jackson, Judge.

This was a rule against the sheriff for distribution of a fund arising from the sale of some bales of cotton. Pollard & Company held the oldest and best lien against Reid, but younger judgments claimed the fund on the ground that the lien of Pollard & Company for advances had never been made by Reid. The proof was, that one Hoge, the agent of Pollard & Company, in the sale of fertilizers, sold them to Reid, and signed Reid’s name, in his absence, to the lien. He stated that Reid afterwards ratified it by parol; Reid denied it, and there was some other proof, the evidence being…