State ex rel. Muller Bros. v. Lazarus

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Poché, J.

In the suit entitled John E. Thomson vs. Müller Bros., a definitive judgment was rendered against the defendants on the 28th of May, 1883, in the, sum of $5485 77. Execution having issued thereon, the sheriff returned that he had found no property of the defendants bo levy upon.

Whereupon, plaintiffs instituted proceedings under section 1781 of the Revised Statutes, with a view to a forced surrender of their property by the judgment debtors, and obtained, on the'8th of November, 1883, an order for such surrender conformably to the provisions of…