Speed v. Brown

Judge Gkaham

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Brown, Curtis and Yance, judgment creditors of Speed, being unable to collect their debt by execution, on the 26th July, 1848, exhibited this suit in chancery, to enjoin the City of Louisville from paying to Speed so much of his salary, as City Marsha], due and payable 31st July, 1848, as would pay their • demand. Speed’s salary is $750 per annum, payable monthly; that is, $62 50 at the close of each month. Speed, in his answer, states that in the month when the bill was filed he had in his hands monies of the city, received in discharge of the…