Williamson v. Bowie

March 13th 1818, Judge lloane pronounced the Court’s opinion, as follows :

not deciding, as a general proposition, what is to be considered, in this Country, a lis pendens, *180binding- on purchasers without actual notice, yet, eonsidering this case by analogy to attachments against absconding debtors, whose credits as well as effects may he arrested, and alienations thei’eof prevented; and being of opinion that the Subpoena, with the indorsement thereon, operated, agi’eeably to the pi’actice in this State, to stop the payment by the Garnishee of the monies due from him to the other defendants Magruder § Co., and to inhibit a transfer thereof, from them to others, from the time of the service of that process on him, and that service having taken place befoi’e the conveyance in this ease,—is further of opinion that the proceedings in the suit instituted by Howie, in the Bill mentioned, gave that creditor a preference over the claim of the appellants.

On this gi*ound, (and without deciding upon the validity of the Conveyance aforesaid,) (3) the Court is of opinion that the Deci’ee of the Chancellor, so far as it affirms that of the County Coui’t is correct; but that that dcci’ee is ei’roneous in giving damages against the appellants. The said Decree is therefore revei’sed with costs, and the cause l’emanded, with directions to the Coui’t of Chancery to affirm the deci’ee of the County Coui’t.