Dorroh v. Bailey

WILLSON, Chief Justice.

By his suit Dorroh, the plaintiff below, sought to recover sums aggregating $540.38, alleged to be due to him from Bailey on promissory notes made by the latter. After he had instituted his suit Dorroh procured the issuance of a writ of attachment, which, it appears from the officer’s return made thereupon, was levied upon two bales of lint cotton weighing respectively 500 and 520 pounds, cotton “in the field” estimated to be a quantity sufficient to make one light bale, a bay mare valued at $50, a wagon valued at $50, found in Bailey’s possession, and two bales of lint…