Tucker v. Quick

The plaintiff, without •making bond, began his suit against the defendant, who was a nonresident, by attachment issued by a- justice of the peace, returnable to the circuit court; the amount claimed being in excess of the jurisdiction of the justice court. The attachment writ was placed in the hands of an unbonded special constable, who executed the writ by levying on a mule and buggy as the property of defendant. The defendant did not enter his unqualified appearance, as he might have done under the statute, thereby releasing the levy unless.the plaintiff made bond, etc., but himself made…