Hodges v. Hurd

In October, 1865, the firm of Cheney & Kniglit, of Cairo, sold to Hurd, the appellee herein, five bales of cotton, then in possession of the surveyor of the port of Cairo, who had seized it to await an examination in regard to charges for a supposed violation of the treasury regulations. They gave Hurd an order on the surveyor for the cotton, and one of the firm went with him to the surveyor and notified the latter of the sale, and that he was to deliver the cotton to Hurd. Before the cotton was actually delivered, one Geary sued out an attachment against Cheney & Knight, by virtue of which,…