Wallace v. First National Bank of Gallatin

BROWN, Associate Justice.

In order that our ruling upon this application may be understood, we make the following statement of the case: The defendant in error sued J. E. Wallace in the District Court of-Hill County to recover upon a judgment of a chancery court of the State of Tennessee, and Wallace being a nonresident, attachment was sued out and levied upon lands situated in Hill County. Wallace appeared and answered to the original suit, and three years thereafter filed a plea in abatement to the writ of attachment, charging that the sureties upon the attachment bond were not solvent for…