Chittenden v. Rogers

Simeon B. Chittenden and company, on the 23d of July, 1861, sued out a writ of attachment from the clerk’s office -of the Cook,Circuit Court, against Rogers and McCormick, upon an indebtedness amounting to two thousand and thirty-four dollars, returnable to the September Term of that Court, which writ was on the day of its date levied by the sheriff upon a quantity of merchandise. The sheriff placed the goods in the care of the official custodian of Cook county, and took his receipt for the property.

On the 2d of August, 1861, Huested and Carll sued out a writ of attachment from the same…