Potomac Steamboat Co. v. Clyde

At the suit of the appellants an attachment on warrant was issued against Thomas Clyde, a non-resident, returnable to January Term of the Superior Court, 1870 ; the writ was laid in the hands of the Powhatan Steamboat *178Company as garnishee, and certain property of Clyde, the defendant, was attached per schedule, consisting of forty shares of capital stock, owned by him, of the Powhatan Steamboat Company. At the same, time an action of assumpsit was brought by the same plaintiffs against Clyde, and a summons issued thereon returnable to the same term. The summons was returned non est, and there…