Sedalia Milling Co. v. Stafford County Flour Mills

ELLISON, P. J.-

Plaintiff’s action was instituted by attachment before a justice of the peace in Pettis county, against a milling company residing in Kansas. The Hudson State Bank of Kansas interpleaded for the attached property. The case on the interplea was appealed to the- circuit court, where the judgment was against the interpleader bank, and it appealed to this court.

The statute (Sec. 7636, R. S. 1909) as to jurisdiction of justices of the peace in attachment cases, reads as follows:

“Every action by attachment shall be brought before a justice of the township wherein the property,…