Sweetzer, Pembroke & Co. v. H. B. Claflin & Co.

Gaines, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by appellees H. B. Clañin & Co. against Dreeben & Lewis, a mercantile firm composed of Solomon Dreeben and Sam Lewis, to recover an alleged indebtedness of more than 116,000, evidenced by certain promissory notes, one of which was for the sum of $8746.29. A writ of attachment was sued out and levied upon a stock of goods, which were sold by order of the district judge as perishable property, and of which the proceeds, amounting to-$13,750, were paid into the hands of the clerk of the court.

Appellants Sweetzer, Pembroke & Co., being creditors of…