Montgomery v. Brander

The plaintiffs, judgment creditors of the defendants, seized in execution in the hands of Bergerot) all the property, rights and credits of their debtors, who had sold him six hundred and twenty bales of cotton, which they had received for sale, as commission merchants from several planters in the neighboring States. On his communicating the seizure to the defendants, and informing them that it would not be in his power, in consequence thereof, to comply with the terms of his purchase, to wit, a cash payment, they deemed it their duty to protect the interest of the planters, by preventing the…