Johnston v. Jones

THE COURT.

This is an application by the defendant for a writ of supersedeas staying the enforcement, pending appeal, of a writ of mandate issued by the trial court, commanding the defendant to release certain “attachments or garnishments . . . served or levied by him,” as sheriff, in an action by one ITille against the plaintiff herein.

The petition alleges that the defendant has regularly-appealed to this court from the judgment entered against him in the mandamus proceeding; that, notwithstanding such appeal, the plaintiff has threatened to and will apply to the trial court “for an order…