Bliss v. Watkins
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error to the Circuit Court of Sumter. Tried before the Hon. Samuel Chapman. In this case an application was made to the court by the sheriff of Sumter, for direction as to the appropriation of a sum of money in his hands, raised by sale under execution of the land of one Blake Little.
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Error to the Circuit Court of Sumter. Tried before the Hon. Samuel Chapman. In this case an application was made to the court by the sheriff of Sumter, for direction as to the appropriation of a sum of money in his hands, raised by sale under execution of the land of one Blake Little. The several judgment creditors appeared, and submitted their respective claims to the judgment of the court, on an agreed state of facts, which, so far as they are necessary to a correctUnderstanding of the point now involved, may be thus stated: The plaintiff and defendant respectively obtained judgments…
1Opinion of the CourtChilton, J.
The sheriff, having doubts as to the correct appropriation of the funds collected by him upon a sale of land under executions in his hands, brings the money into court, and the parties in interest make an agreed case on which the Circuit Court awarded a distribution of the funds.
Russell and Tappan et ah, to whom the larger portion of the fund was adjudged, are satisfied with the decision. Bliss complains in this court that he is entitled to share pro rata with the defendant Watkins the sum which was adjudged by the Circuit Court to be paid by the sheriff to him.' The judgments of Bliss and…
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