Sweatt v. Grogan

ATWELL, District Judge.

The plaintiffs allege a conspiracy and the conversion, as the result of such conspiracy, of three hundred thousand barrels of oil, alleged to be worth $405,000.

All of the defendants being non-residents, the plaintiff, while the suit was in the state court, secured service by writs of attachment and non-resident notices. In the motion to quash the writs, it is claimed that approximately two million dollars in property were attached; that subsequently a portion of the property was released, leaving two refineries and a $700,000 oil payment still impounded.

The motion…