Marshall v. Grand Gulp Railroad & Banking Co.

The plaintiff sues to recover $4395, the amount of a number of bank notes issued by the defendants, an incorporated bank of the state of Mississippi. The suit commenced by attachment, but the defendants appeared by counsel, and answered by a general denial, and by averring, that none of their property had been attached.

Thereupon Ingraham & Reed, residing in the state of Mississippi, intervened, and alleged in their petition that, by an act duly executed in that state, in the month of February, 1842, and by subsequent acts, the defendants conveyed and transferred to them as assignees, for the…