Keith v. Kellogg

During vacation, on the 10th of May, 1879, Harley M. Lyford, by his attorney, George J. Munroe, confessed a judgment in the Will county circuit court, in favor of appellees, for the sum of $4221.02, which was entered up in due form by the clerk. On the same day an execution was issued on this judgment and placed in the hands of the sheriff, by virtue of which he levied upon and sold property belonging to the defendant in the execution to the amount of $1708.25, exclusive of costs. While this money was in the hands of the sheriff, appellants, being also judgment creditors of Lyford, and having…