Callihan v. Montrief

In a former suit, George Callihan and J. H. Wheeler, partners, recovered a judgment against Frank Maley for the sum of $1,807.73, with costs of suit and foreclosure of an attachment lien on certain drilling tools owned by Maley. The tools were then sold under that foreclosure by the sheriff, J. F. Foster, who levied the writ, for the sum of $325, the plaintiff George Callihan being the purchaser, but declining to pay the sheriff the amount of his bid. When the writ of attachment was levied, B. E. Montrief was using the tools in the drilling of an oil well and they were taken from his…