Bynum v. Johnston
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Arkansas;' Frank A. Youmans, Judge. Attachment by T. A. Johnston and others against W. W. Bynum, in which Mrs. Lena Bynum interpleaded, claiming the property. Judgment awarding the interpleader a part only of the property, and she brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
REED, District Judge.
The defendants in error, T. A. Johnston et al., who will be called the plaintiffs, commenced suit in the circuit court of Yell county, Ark., in February, 1913, against one W. W. Bynum, claiming of him damages in the sum of $20,000 for an alleged tort which caused the burning of a cotton seed oil mill of the plaintiffs and the machinery connected therewith, to their damage in said matter. Upon the filing of the complaint a writ of attachment issued against the property of said defendant, and thereunder certain household goods, furniture, a piano, and some other property…
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