Pitts v. Flournoy & Epping
Pitts v. Flournoy & Epping
Opinion of the Court
The plaintiff in error obtained a judgment and fi. fa. against J. W. Kimbrough in June, 1877, which, in November thereafter, was levied upon fifteen bales of his cotton. Two fi.fas. in favor of Flournoy & Epping, one a common law fi.fa. of older date than Pitts’, the other a mortgage y?. fa., younger, but with a waiver of homestead and exemption, were also levied on the same cotton. Kimbrough, to defeat the collection of the Pitts’ fi.fa., had an exemption of personalty granted him on the cotton, and as trustee for his wife and children claimed it, with Flournoy & Epping as his securities. The sheriff returned the Pitts fi. fa. with the entry thereon of “ homestead taken,” and the claim papers arising on the same, back to the court.
The complainants allege that Kimbrough and Pitts are •related ; that notwithstanding his, Kimbrough’s, agreement with complainants he refuses to interpose another claim ; that Pitts has advertised the cotton for sale;, that Kimbrough, combining and conspiring with Pitts to defraud them, and in answer to his strange and unjust proceedings, says that he and the said Pitts understand each other ; that Pitts has notified them to produce ' the cotton at the sale ; that they, Pitts and Kimbrough, are both insolvent; that a continuance of this fraudulent conduct on the part of Pitts and Kimbrough will subject them to a suit on their bond where they cannot make defense as adequately as they can in a court of equity ; that their bill will prevent a multiplicity of suits, terminate endless litigation, place at rest the title to said property, and settle the equities between all parties. Therefore they pray for an injunction against the said Pitts until all the equities can be heard and determined.
Upon the hearing of this application for injunction the same was granted by the chancellor, and Pitts, by his counsel, excepted.
We think that the allegations in complainants’ bill, and the denials and charges set up in the defendant’s answer, make such a case as should be passed on by a jury, and that the chancellor committed no error in granting the injunction.
Judgment affirmed.
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