McGuire v. McKnight

This is an application for a mandamus to require the circuit judge to set aside an order vacating an attachment brought under the log-lien act, on the ground that there was no proper service of the writ upon the principal defendant or upon the log-owners or those in custody of the logs, for the reason that no copy of an inventory was served, as required by the general attachment statute, nor was any made.

The general statute (How. Stat. § 7991) requires a service of the copy of inventory, and in all cases, except under the log-lien law, the failure to make such service is fatal to the lien.…