Richardson v. Langston & Crane

Crawford, Justice.

Langston & Crane, with a mortgage fi. fa., and A. D. Richardson, Wm. R. Brown, J. E. and W. S. Latimer, with fi. fas. founded upon laborers’ liens, were contestants for certain money in the hands of the sheriff raised from a sale of.the property of their common debtor. The court, on motion of counsel for Langston & Crane, quashed the fi. fas. of the other parties, upon the ground that the affidavits upon which they were founded were fatally defective. They set forth that Elliott, the defendant, was a merchant selling dry goods and groceries, and that he was indebted, etc.,…