Caldwell & Co.'s Ancillary Receiver v. Landrum

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Clay—

Affirming.

Rutledge Smith, ancillary receiver of Caldwell & Co., and Caldwell & Co., a corporation, brought this action against D. D. Landrum, drainage commissioner of McLean county, and Sam Ferguson Drainage District No. 11 of McLean and Muhlenberg Counties, to recover the sum of $6,000 with 6 per cent, interest from February 12, 1927, and asked that an order of attachment he issued and levied upon the property of the defendant district. The defendants filed an answer denying certain allegations of the petition and pleading some affirmative matter…