Meyer
Frye-Bruhn Co. v. Meyer
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Morrow, J.
This is a suit in equity commenced by the Frye-Bruhn Company, a corporation, against Herman Meyer in the United States District Court for the District of Alaska, Division No. 1, on the 21st day of March, 1902. The bill of complaint alleged the recovery of a judgment by Charles H. Frye against the defendant, Herman Meyer, in the superior court of Kings county, in the state of Washington, on the 28th day of June, 1889, for $3,140.10, and costs; the issuance of an execution on this judgment against the property of Herman Meyer, directed to the sheriff of Kings county, state of Washington, and the return of the execution by the sheriff unsatisfied; and, further, that no property of the defendant had been found. The bill further alleged the assignment of the judgment to plaintiff on the 27th day of January, 1900; the commencement of an action in the District Court of Alaska by Herman Meyer against the Frye-Bruhn Company in *36 1899; and the recovery of a judgment against the defendant in that action on the 21st day of March, 1902, for the sum of 45 per cent, of $6,295, after the payment of the costs of the action. The hill alleged that there was money in the hands of the clerk of the…