First State Bank v. Becker

The defendants in error, as plaintiffs below, brought this action to restrain the defendants below, plaintiffs in error here, the Bank of Sulphur Springs and the sheriff of the county, the latter a nominal defendant only, from proceeding further with an advertised sale of chattels which the defendant bank through the sheriff proposed to make by virtue of an execution on a judgment recovered by the bank against the owner of seized chattels to which defendants in error claimed a prior right as mortgagees of the judgment debtor. In aid of their action the plaintiffs, without notice to…