DeLacy v. Hurst, Purnell & Co.

Simmons, Justice.

The bill in this case is made returnable to the August term, 1888, of Meriwether superior, court. It was addressed to the judge of the superior courts of the Coweta circuit, holding and exercising chancery jurisdiction therein. The complainants were Hurst, Purnell & Co. and others, styling themselves creditors of John M. DeLacy and DeLacy & Tallman, The bill was a general creditor’s bill, in which John M. DeLacy, of the county of Mei’iwether, and the firm of Swift & Hamburger, of Muscogee county, were named as parties defendant. It alleged, in substance, that DeLacy was…