Wooster v. Stanfield

On the 2d day of October, 1857, plaintiffs obtained a judgment against defendant, Stanfield, for the. sum of $427,86. On the 16th and 27th of November following, Brobst and French were garnished upon an execution issued on said judgment. The substance of French’s answer was, that he and defendant Stanfield had in May, 1857, jointly purchased of one Brobst, blocks 20 and 40 and lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 in block 19 in the city of Knoxville, for $2500; that the deed was made to him for the whole of the property, with the understanding that he should convey to Stanfield one undivided half…