Calk v. Chiles

The Chief Justice

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

In 1834, William Chiles filed a bill in chancery against William Calk, as a non-resident; and against others as residents, of this state, praying for the subjection of land and choses in action alleged to be the property of the said William Calk, to the satisfaction of a debt claimed to be due from him to the complainant, on a promissory note due in the year 1809.

The act of 1797, (S.L. 98) subjecting nonresidents’ lands to their debts, by suits in ch’cery, requires that the bill shall be sworn to; and it must allege that the debtor has no…