Tennessee Supreme Court September 15, 1872 (Longstreet v. Hill)

McFarland, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

On the 1st day of December, 1865, "Joseph S. Hill •& Co. and others, as creditors of J. W. Patterson & 'Co., filed their attachment bill in the • Chancery Court ■at Knoxville, Tennessee, under which an attachment was issued, and on the 1st day of January, 1866, levied by the Sheriff of Knox county, upon a stock of goods of said Patterson & Co.