Turner v. Hammock

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Willis

Reversing.

A question of priority is presented by this appeal. J. B. Turner instituted the action against Dan Hammock to recover $1,364.84 advanced to him and procured an order of attachment which was levied upon a quantity of tobacco. Hammock admitted owing Turner $1,289.84 for money advanced, and judgment went accordingly. The attachment was sustained, but Turner’s lien thus obtained was subordinated to a mortgage lien for $800 asserted in an intervening petition by T. S. Brown. The tobaeco seems to have been sold, but brought less than the' mortgage debt,…