Hopkins v. Connel

The Chancellor:

— The original bill was filed on the 6th of April, 1871, by the complainant, as a judgment creditor of the Edgefield & Kentucky Bailroad Company by judgment recovered before a justice of the peace for $50, and as the assignee of three other judgments against that company, recovered by the assignors before the same justice on the same day, amounting together to $183.60. These judgments were all recovered on the 7th of June, 1870, for stock previously killed by the railroad trains. The bill was against William Connel alone, as the receiver of the Edge-field & Kentucky Bailroad…