Harrison v. Renfro
Supreme Court of Missouri
ERROR TO CALLAWAY CIRCUIT COURT. Crockett Harrison sued Reuben M. Renfro in the Callaway Circuit Court to the October term, 1844, by petition in debt, and attached two slaves in the possession of Mrs. Renfro, as the property of the defendant, and had judgment by default, on publication of notice at April term, 1846. At the October term, 1846, Mrs. Renfro appeared and claimed the attached slaves, and upon a trial of the issue made on that plea, the plaintiff, Harrison, had a…
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ERROR TO CALLAWAY CIRCUIT COURT. Crockett Harrison sued Reuben M. Renfro in the Callaway Circuit Court to the October term, 1844, by petition in debt, and attached two slaves in the possession of Mrs. Renfro, as the property of the defendant, and had judgment by default, on publication of notice at April term, 1846. At the October term, 1846, Mrs. Renfro appeared and claimed the attached slaves, and upon a trial of the issue made on that plea, the plaintiff, Harrison, had a verdict and judgment, which was reversed in this court at the January term, 1847 (10 Mo. R. 412). A second trial of this…
1Opinion of the Court
NAPTÓN, J.
In the case of Swearingen v. Administrator of Eberius, 7 Mo. R. 421, the court quashed a fieri facias against the attached property and left the plaintiff to proceed with his judgment in the County Court. No opinion, was designed to be given in that case, by either Judge Scott or myself, in relation to the lien of an attachment or a judgment. I was not present when the opinion was filed, and Judge Scott filed a note of the ground upon which we put the case. In the subsequent case of Prewitt v. Jewell, the point in relation to the'lien of a judgment came up directly, and Judge Scott…
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