City of LaGrange v. Pounds

1. Where an execution issued in favor of the City of LaG-range against a named person generally, as the owner of certain city lots, and specially against the lots, by virtue of an unpaid paving assessment, and before the assessment was made the defendant in fi. fa. had parted with the title to two of the lots, the defendant in fi. fa. could properly arrest the progress of the execution by filing an affidavit of illegality setting up that he did not owe the amount of the execution and that the assessment against the two lots the title to which was not in him at the time of the assessment…