Garner & Neville v. Lyles & Bracy
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to the District Chancery Court at Macon. Hon. James E. Trotter, vice-chancellor. This was a creditor’s bill, filed by Garner & Neville, in behalf of themselves, and such other creditors of Lyles & Bracy as might afterwards become legally parties complainant, for the purpose of subjecting certain property to the payment of certain judgments, owned by the complainants.
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Error to the District Chancery Court at Macon. Hon. James E. Trotter, vice-chancellor. This was a creditor’s bill, filed by Garner & Neville, in behalf of themselves, and such other creditors of Lyles & Bracy as might afterwards become legally parties complainant, for the purpose of subjecting certain property to the payment of certain judgments, owned by the complainants. The bill shows that, in 1854, the complainants recovered two several judgments against John T. Lyles and W. R. Bracy, partners, under the firm, name, and style of Lyles & Bracy; and that they also recovered a judgment…
1Opinion of the CourtExshee, J.
This was a creditor’s bill, filed by the appellants in the Vice-Chancery Court at Macon, to subject certain property and equitable assets to the payment of two judgments recovered by the appellants against John T. Lyles and William ft. Bracy, and to the payment of a judgment recovered against the same parties and William D. Lyles, under the name of Lyles, Bracy & Co.
The bill contains the usual allegations in such bills, of the issuing of executions on the several judgments, and the return of nulla bona, &c. It then proceeds to aver the death of Bracy; that no administration has been granted…
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