State ex rel. Merchants National Bank v. Hull

Mabry, C. J.:

This is a proceeding by mandamus instituted in this court to compel a clerk of the Circuit Court to grant an order for the sale of personal property seized under writs of attachment, on the ground that the property was perishable, liable to great deterioration in value, and the cost of keeping some of it was greatly disproportionate to its value.

The alternative writ shows that in December, 1895, the Merchants National Bank instituted two suits at law against one Isadore Grrunthal, and at the same time writs of attachment were sued out and levied upon certain personal property…