Vicksburg, Shreveport & Texas Railroad v. Barksdale

Merrick, O. J.

Carroll, Pritchard <& Co., Scott, Loring & Co., and the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Texas Railroad Company being judgment creditors, had seized under execution seven negroes as the property of L. G. Calcoate, their judgment debtor.

The defendant, Barksdale, obtained upon petition an order of injunction from the the District Judge, restraining the sheriff from selling the property seized, on condition that he should execute his bond, according to law, in tho sum of $1500.

Instead of making the bond payable to the plaintiffs in execution, he and his surety, Power, made the same…