Towle v. Donnell

DENISON, Circuit Judge.

Towle, a citizen of Nebraska, filed in the court below a bill in equity, seeking specific performance against Rucker and others; and eventually, specific performance being found impossible, he recovered.a judgment for damages; under Towle’s direction, Dillard, the United States marshal for the Middle District of Tennessee, levied an execution up on a farm in that district, known as the Jenkins farm, the title to which had been in Rucker’s name, but which he had conveyed to his daughter, Mrs. Donnell. The farm being advertised for sale under this execution, Mrs. Donnell…