Adams v. Abram

The defendant in error proceeded against the plaintiffs in error, who were non-residents of the State, by attachment issued by a justice of the peace. The writ was issued April 10, 1877, and was made returnable April 21. The constable returned that he could not find any one of the defendants named in the writ in the county, but he did not return that he had left a copy of the writ at the last place of residence of any of the defendants in the county, or that there was no such last place of residence. This was a fatal defect in the return. The proceeding is special and statutory, and every…