Ex parte Davis

The petitioner was arrested in proceedings in arrest and bail, Civil Code, Title VIII., Chap. 1, and now seeks to be discharged on habeas corpus upon the ground *437that the affidavit for his arrest is not sufficient to justify the arrest. The affidavit isas follows: “James M. Anthony being first duly sworn, says that he is the -duly authorized agent of the above named plaintiff, Amos Whitely, president of the Champion Machine Co., that said plaintiff has commenced an action in said court against the above named defendant, Ed. E. Davis, to recover from him the sum of four hundred and twenty-nine…