Collins v. Friend

Plaintiffs brought suit hy attachment against the defendant, a non-resident, and propounded interrogatories to R. Yeat-man as garnishee, who answered, in substance, that he neither held any property behrmring, nor was indebted to the defendant, but that, as agent of Mrs. Aoklin, in January 1867, he entered into a contract of compromise with the defendant (Friend), Gomkel' and Lanier, for annulling a lease- of certain plantations in West Feliciana, and purchasing certain movable property thereon from two of said lessees, Gomkel and Lanier, upon its value being ascertained by referees to be…