Baltimore, Ohio & Chicago Railroad v. Taylor

Morris, C.

On the 18th day of December, 1873, Thomas H. B. Teeples commenced a suit against Johnson Virtue, to recover $136.37 for work and labor. Teeples filed, with his complaint, an affidavit stating the nature of his cause of ac-^ tion, that it was just, the amount he ought to recover, and *26that Virtue was not a resident of the State. Upon this affidavit he procured an attachment to be issued against the property of Virtue, filing an undertaking with surety for the due prosecution of the attachment proceedings. He also filed an affidavit that the appellant was indebted to Virtue, and…