Johnston & Seats v. Hannah
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Madison. Tried before the Hon. Louis Wyeth. This action was commenced by an attachment, sued out before a justice of the peace, on the 2d January, 1877, by A. J. Hannah, against Johnston & Seats as partners, or against certain crops of corn, fodder, millet, &c., raised on a plantation belonging to them, for wages claimed to be due to the plaintiff as the superintendent of said plantation during the year 1876. The attachment was made…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Madison. Tried before the Hon. Louis Wyeth. This action was commenced by an attachment, sued out before a justice of the peace, on the 2d January, 1877, by A. J. Hannah, against Johnston & Seats as partners, or against certain crops of corn, fodder, millet, &c., raised on a plantation belonging to them, for wages claimed to be due to the plaintiff as the superintendent of said plantation during the year 1876. The attachment was made returnable into the Circuit Court, and was duly returned, with the other papers in the cause, to that court; and the sheriff’s…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
Th.e present suit was commenced by attach-* ment under sections 3, 5 and 6, of the act “ To declare a lien in favor of laborers, mechanics and employes, and to provide for the enforcement thereof,” approved March 19th, 1875 i Pamph. Acts, 103; Oode of 1876, § 3482. The defendant replevied the property attached, but made no defense to the action. The case was tried at the second term, on judgment by default, and writ of inquiry executed. There is an omission in the affidavit for attachment, in this : The statute provides this remedy for “ agricultural laborers aüd superintendents of…
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