Bruce v. Coleman

The plaintiff states in his petition, that, the defendants Morse & Coleman, through the instrumentality of their agent Brown, who, it is averred, made the affidavit required by one of the clauses of § 193 of the.Code, wrongfully obtained an order of attachment against the.property of the plaintiff, who was then their debtor, to. the amount of $1,000. That the attachment was delivered to the sheriff, who seized the defendants’ stock of merchandise,. *516removed the same from his place of business, and detained it from July 1st, 1854, until the February Term of .this Court, 1855 ; that the…