Ellerd v. Alexander Oliver

BLAIR, -J.

Appellees Instituted suit against appellants upon an open account for the sum of $788.01. On the same day they made affidavit and bond in attachment, and the writ of attachment was levied upon certain horses which were afterwards' sold on an order of the court. Thereafter appellants filed a plea of privilege, alleging their residence to be in Hale county, Tex. The plea was duly controverted by appellees. On the same day they filed a motion to quash the writ of attachment, because the bond filed and approved as the basis for it was not made payable to the defendants, as required by…