Importing & Exporting Co. v. Locke

The appellant sued the appellees, to recover damages for breach of an attachment bond executed by them, in wrongfully suing out the attachment. The breach assigned is, that they failed to prosecute said writ of attachment to effect. The defendants pleaded the general issue, nul tiel corporation, and a special plea that the plaintiff, an alleged foreign corporation, was organized in the State of Georgia, during the late rebellion, for the purpose of running the blockade *333imposed by the United States against the ports of Georgia and other states of the so-called Confederate States, and obtained…