Stockton v. Stanbrough

The judgment of the court was pronounced by

Eustis, C. J.

The plaintiff prayed for an injunction against certain hypothecary proceedings, under an order of seizure and sale granted at the instance of the defendant, who is curator of the succession of Jesse Harper, on two certain promissory notes secured by mortgage. He claims the ownership of the notes under an assignment from Louis A. Collier, who, it is alleged, purchased them at a sale made by the marshal of the United States, under an execution issued from the Circuit Court of the United States, in the case of The Farmers Bank of Virginia…