John T. Grant & Co. v. Harris

This suit was instituted to annul a judicial sale at the suit of Watson & Kavanaugh and of William McMichael against T. C. Bates & Co., of two certain orders, each for ten thousand dollars, drawn by John T. Grant & Co. upon, and accepted by the New Orleans, Jackson & Great Northern Railroad Company, and to recover back the price of adjudication, on the ground that the orders were never, in point of fact, seized by the Sheriff, and were not the property of the defendants in execution at the time of the pretended seizure and sale, but belonged to third parties.

The defendants deny that the…