Chapman v. Pocock

The only question brought up for review relates to the taxing of costs in the case. The plaintiffs were one of eight different sets of attaching creditors, who brought separate suits against the defendants in the district court of Lake county. Upon petition of all the plaintiff creditors a receiver was appointed by the court to take and dispose of the goods of the defendant firm for the benefit of the creditors. The goods, when seized by the sheriff under the attachment writs, were in the hands of a third party, who intervened in the suits as prior claimant of the property. The suits were…