Hanley v. Wallace

Judge Marshall

delivered the opinion of the Court.

In January, 1822, Hanley filed his bill in the Mercer Circuit, and attached certain slaves, the property of William Lewis, for the purpose of ultimately subjecting them to the payment of one half of several replevy bonds remaining in the Jessamine Circuit Court, then due, in which Lewis and Hanley were co-securities of James Clark, the principal, who was alledged to be insolvent. It was also alledged, as the ground of the proceeding, that Lewis was fraudulently removing himself and his property out of the State, to avoid paying his portion of…