Petty v. Lang and Adams

HENRY, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by appellees to recover from appellant the one-third part of a promissory note which the petition alleged had been executed jointly by plaintiffs and defendant to the Colorado Hational Bank and afterward paid by plaintiffs. Plaintiffs sued out writs of attachment, one of which was directed to the proper officers of Mitchell County and the other to Howard County. Both writs were levied. The Avrit directed to Howard County was levied by the sheriff of that county upon 1500 head of sheep, but that levy was immediately released, and the sheep were…