Worth v. Smith

A number of persons were proceeding, at the same time, to subject, by attachment, the steamer John Mills, to their several debts.

In the progress of the case, the Chancellor ordered the steamer to be sold upon a credit, by his Marshal, which was done, and bonds with security taken for the payment of the proceeds to the Marshal, which had fallen due before the final decree was rendered. By the final decree the claimants who are plaintiffs in error, were preferred, and the decree, after directing the costs to be paid out of the proceeds, ordered the balance to be distributed, pro rata, among…