Moore v. . Hinnant

This is a controversy submitted without action (to the superior court of Johnston county) upon an agreed statement of facts under C. C. P., § 315.

The defendant, sheriff of Johnston county, under several writs of attachment sued out against one H. L. Watson by creditors, had levied upon certain goods of the debtor, which the plaintiff held under a prior assignment to himself in trust to secure all the creditors.

The object of the suit is to have a decision of the court upon the sufficiency in form, and legal efficacy of .the deed, in vesting the title in the plaintiff against the attaching…