Delop & Co. v. Windsor

On the fourteenth November, 1867, the' plaintiffs sued the defendants for $4811 42, and attached fifty bales of cotton on board the steamhoat Grey Eagle, which cotton the defendants raised on their plantation in Washington county, Mississippi'.

After the attachment was levied S. H. Kennedy & Co. intervened, claiming to be creditors of the defendants in the sum of $3290, and asserting a privilege on said cotton, because their claim was for supplies and cash advanced to raise it, and also because it was consigned to them by the defendants.

The court gave judgment in favor of the plaintiffs for…