Bruff v. Thompson

The question involved in this case is whether in a chancery suit to subject the personal estate of a married woman to the payment of a debt, the plaintiff acquires a specific lien or claim upon the personal property of the married *24woman named in the bill, by the service of the summons on her and afterwards filing his bill, or whether such specific lien or claim is only acquired by the taking possession of the property by the sheriff, or some one else, under an order of court in the cause.

To determine this question we must have a clear conception of the true character of such a suit in equity.…