Lee v. King

This was an application to the Circuit Court of Butler county, for a mandamus, or mandatory order, to the clerk of that court, commanding him to issue an alias venditioni exponas on a certain judgment therein described, of which the petitioner, E. A. Lee, represents himself as transferree and owner. The judgment was recovered by mechanics and material-men, for work and labor done and materials furnished in the erection of a hotel building on a *247certain described lot in the city of Greenville. The purpose and effect of tlie suit and judgment were the ascertainment and adjudication of the amount…