Hyde v. Shank

Alonzo M. Shank, as sheriff of Osceola county, seized certain chattels by virtue of a writ of attachment sued out of the circuit court of that county in favor of Daniel M. Gardner, against the goods, chattels, lands, and tenements of John R. Edgett. The writ was tested on February 4, 1887, and was seiwed on the 11th of that month.

On November 3, 1886, John R. Edgett executed a mortgage to Frank D. and George S. Hyde, under the name of “Hyde Bros.;” which was duly filed on November 6, 1886. The mortgage recited that Edgett was justly indebted to Hyde Bros, in the sum of $2,000, and that he…