Cheatham v. Galloway

Galloway and Matthews filed their attachment bill against Wm. Perry, jr., in the Chancery Court at Columbia in October, 1861.

An attachment was issued and levied on personal property, and Perry gave bond and retained the possession of the property.

The complainants in this cause obtained judgment in 1860, upon which several executions were issued and levied in 1865, in part upon the same property which Galloway and Matthews had attached in 1861. The property at the time of complainants’ levies, was in the possession of the defendant Perry, and he was about to remove it beyond the limits of the…