Jones v. Brittan

WOODS, Circuit Judge.

The bill is in the nature of a creditor’s bill. It avers, in substance, that complainant Jones, on December 17, 1S66, recovered a judgment against the firm of Coleman, Brittan & Withers, in which the defendant Brittan was a partner, for $11,883.25, in the First district court for Hinds county, Mississippi. That the firm of John Watt & Co., of which complainant, Michael Musson, is surviving partner, recovered a judgment against the same firm of Coleman, Brittan & Co. on the law side of this court, on the 9th day of May, 1867, for the sum of $7,200. That executions were…