Harper v. Turner

Suit by original attachment, before a Justice of the Peace, to enforce a landlord’s lien on his tenant’s crop for rents. Summons was issued at the same time and served upon the tenant. Judgment was pronounced by the Justice of *687the Peace in favor of plaintiff, and sale of crop ordered. Defendant appealed, and in the Circuit Court moved to quash the writ of attachment upon several grounds, and, among others, that the writ did not run in the name of the State, as required by the Constitution. On motion of plaintiff, the Court permitted the attachment to be amended in the respects complained of.…