Boyce v. Early-Stratton Co.

This is a suit for fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) damages for the malicious and wilful suing out of an attachment. The declaration alleged that the defendant, Early-Stratton Company through its attorney, maliciously and wilfully sued out an original attachment in the court of R. C. Strehl, Justice of the Peace, against C. R. Boyce; that pursuant to the attachment the plaintiff’s account and collateral at the Union & Planters Bank & Trust Company of Memphis, Tennessee, were tied up for several days and that the plaintiff’s credit was greatly injured and their business injured as a result…