Emmerson v. Gray

ÍVÍartin, J.

delivered the opinion ofthe Court. This suit originated by a writ of sequestration obtained by Emmerson on thirty-two bales of cotton, by rhim spld to J. F. Gray and Jno. Taylor, New-Orleans, on a credit of sixty days, for which he took their note they having tailed about nine days after the sale.

Gray and Taylor, of Philadelphia, intervened claiming the cotton as their property ; their claim being resisted by Emmerson, the issue was tried *698by a jury and there'wsis a verdict and judgment^ for Emmerson. Gray and Taylor appealed.

East. District. July 1815.

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