Stockton v. Downey

The judgment of the court was pronounced by

Eustis, C. J.

On the 6th day of July, 1849, Stockton sued Downey, claiming certain lots of land described in the petition, to be sold by the sheriff, to satisfy a writ offieri facias in the case of Stockton v. Craddick.

*582He alleged, as the ground of action, that on the 12th and 19lh days of January, 1841, he had brought two suits against Craddick, in the Commercial Court of New Orleans; and had attached, as Craddick’s property,, the lots in question, with other lots; that he recorded the attachments and sheriff’s returns in the mortgage office, on the…