Stephens v. Adams
Supreme Court of Alabama
Attachments for Bent, by Assignee of Tenants Notes. Appeals from the Circuit Court of Barbour. Tried before the Hon. Jesse M. Carmichael.
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Attachments for Bent, by Assignee of Tenants Notes. Appeals from the Circuit Court of Barbour. Tried before the Hon. Jesse M. Carmichael. These two actions w;ere brought by J. A. Adams against J. G Stephens, and each was commenced by attachment sued out before a justice of the peace, on the 30th December, 1889. Each action was founded on several small notes for rent, given by the defendant to Mrs. S. A. Green, of which»the plaintiff claimed to be the owner by written "transfer from Mrs. Green, though it was not indorsed on the notes. The notes are nowhere set out or described' in the record,…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, C. J.
— These cases present questions in all respects identical. The suits were insiituted before a justice of the peace, by attachment for rent oí' a hotel .building, alleged to be due. Attached to the'hotel was a stable and lot for mules and other cattle. The attachment was sued out Under sections 3070-1 of the Code of 1886. The ground of attachment was, and is, “that the said J. G. Stephens, the said tenant of said premises, refuses on demand made by affiant, the owner, *119holder and assignee as aforesaid, to pay said” rent notes. The notes were made payable to Mrs. Green, and were transferred to…
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