I. B. Hooks v. Farmers Union Warehouse Company

WHITFIELD, C. J. -- The Farmers Union Warehouse Company brought a bill in equity to foreclose a mortgage upon personal property and growing crops, given by I. B. Hooks, and procured a writ of attachment. The defendant filed a forthcoming bond for $850.00 with W. R. Hooks and J. W. Richardson as sureties, payable to the Governor of Florida and his successors in office, conditioned that the said I. B. Hooks shall have the property forthcoming at a time and place left in blank. A foreclosure of the mortgage was decreed, and subsequently it was decreed that ""it appearing that none of the property is forthcoming to answer such decree and that the sum of $526.85 is due upon the same with interest from October 29th, 1909, it is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed that the complainant, The Farmers Union Warehouse Company, a corporation, do have and recover from the defendant, I. B. Hooks and W. R. Hooks and J. W. Richardson, sureties, upon the forthcoming bond, the sum of $526.85, principal, interest and costs and attorney's fees, with interest from October 29th, 1909, to be levied of the goods and chattels, lands and tenements of the said defendant and sureties as above named, and that execution in due form of law be issued therefor.""