Nancarrow v. Young

Desbigkt. J.

delivered the opinion of the court. John Nancarrow, the plaintiff in this case, being creditor of John House, a citizen of Kentucky, sued out a writ of attachment against the property of said House, in the first district of this state, by virtue of which writ the steam boat Franklin, whereof House was part owner, was attached. The other owners, to relieve the boat from that attachment, came forward and filed their claim for the three fourths of that vessel, offering at the same time “to give security to account for such part, as should be found to belong to the defendant John…