Hughes v. Powers

This is an attachment and garnishment bill, whereby the complainants, Hughes & 'Davis, sought to collect a debt of $246 from the defendant, David Powers. An attachment was levied *482on a tract of land described in the bill, as the property of Powers, the debtor. He permitted the bill to be taken for confessed as to himself; but C. M. Marsee, the garnishee, filed an answer, in which he averred that he purchased the land attached from Powers, and took his deed thereto long before the filing of the bill; that he executed to Powers two negotiable notes for $500 each, as part consideration for the…