Darcy v. John Turner & Co.

Gould, Associate Justice.

Darcy & Wheeler, merchants, of New Orleans, sued the defendants, John Turner & Co., who were or had been merchandising in Emory, Rains county, Texas, on two promissory notes, which, at the time the suit was commenced, (December 30,1871,) had both been due for some months, and amounted, with interest, to $1,415.60. They at the same time sued out an attachment, on the ground that the defendants had transferred their property for the purpose of defrauding their creditors. The attachment was levied on a tract of land of ten acres, and on a town lot in Emory, including a…