Martin v. Foreman

Martin and Bell, surviving partners of the firm of Martin, Underhill & Co., brought assumpsit, by attachment, in the Phillips Circuit Court, against Swank & Miller; and John J. Foreman was summoned as a garnishee. The writ was served on him 19th February, 1855. At the May term following, he filed the following answer to interrogatories propounded to him by the plaintiffs.

“ To the first interrogatory respondent answers that a short time before I was served with process in this case, (between the' first and middle of February, 1855), I purchased from Swank & Miller some town lots in Marianna,…