Jones v. Hightower

To the levy of an execution in favor of J. W. E. Hightower against S. Cottingham, issued from a justice’s court in Talbot county upon the foreclosure of a chattel mortgage, Bob Jones interposed a claim. The case was by consent appealed to a jury in the justice’s court, who found the property subject. The claimant took the case to the superior court by certiorari, which was overruled, and he excepted.

1. In the justice’s court R. E. Hightower, a son of the plaintiff in execution, asked to be made a party plaintiff in the claim case, “ on the ground that J. W. E. Hightower [who had died after…