Sandel v. Douglas

The plaintiff sues the sheriff and the plaintiffs in two writs of execution, issued in their suits against Mrs. S. A. Bell, sepa*565rate in property, for twenty-seven bales of cotton or their value, which he alleges are a part of the crop raised by him on the plantation of said Mrs. Bell, rented to him for the year 1869, and which the said ■sheriff illegally seized and carried away. He also claims damages for injury to the cotton, and attorney’s fees. The defendants plead the general denial, with a special denial of the alleged lease, and the averments, that if an act of lease was executed, it…