Lawrence v. Lee's Department Store

Plaintiff sued out an attachment against the defendant, a resident corporation, on the ground that the "defendant is actually removing or about to remove without the limits of the county; that defendant is removing its property from said county.” The defendant replevied the property levied on. The case came on for trial and the court sustained the defendant’s oral motion to dismiss the attachment “on the ground that said affidavit shows that defendant is a resident of Milledgeville, Georgia, and that a corporation can not remove itself from its residence without an amendment to its charter.”…