Simpson v. Minor

After the return of a domestic attachment, the defendants moved the Circuit Court to dismiss the attachment, because the attachment bond was not indorsed by the clerk as having been taken by him in his office, and by him approved of *230and filed; and because the affidavit made before the attachment issued, was not indorsed as having been filed in the clerk’s office. The bond is not attested, but it has at the foot of it these words: “Done in the clerk’s office in the presence of-;” and the affidavit appears on the face of it to have been made before the clerk. The plaintiff offered to prove by…