Taylor v. Sutherlin-Meade Tobacco Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Corporation Court of the city of Lynchburg in the cases of Sutherlin-Meade Tobacco Co. v. Commonwealth Tobacco Co. and Others, and Butler v. Commonwealth Tobacco Co. and Others, heard together. From a decree in favor of Sutherlin-Meade Tobacco Co. Taylor? Receiver, and Butler appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Whittle, L,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an attachment in equity, sued out by the appellees,, the Sutherlin-Meade Tobacco Company, against the Commonwealth Tobacco Company, a foreign corporation, formerly engaged in the manufacture of tobacco at Lynchburg, Virginia, to attach the property of the defendant company in this state and subject it to plaintiff’s debt.
There was a motion to quash the attachment, because the affidavit upon which it was issued does not show that it was made by “the plaintiff, his agent or attorney,” as required by the present statute (Va. Code, 1904, ss.…
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