Gleason & McManus v. Sheriff

Several of the creditors of John F. McGinn had issued executions in the judgments which they had respectively obtained against their debtor, and in virtue thereof the sheriff, on the 4th Deoeraber, I860, levied on a stock of goods.

Subsequently, on the 20th March, 1861, the plaintiffs, third opponents, caused to be stayed in the sheriff’s hands the proceeds of John F. Mc-Ginn’s stock of goods, out of which they claimed to be paid the amount due them, say six hundred and ninety-seven dollars, for which they held the lessor’s pledge, and claimed to be paid therefrom the amount due them by…