State ex rel. Bell v. Hill

The respondents, Hill, Fontaine & Company, instituted an attachment suit in the circuit court of Pemiscot county against the relator and Charles Tistadt, composing the firm of Bell & Tistadt. Partnership property only was attached. Tistadt made default. The relator filed a plea in abatement, putting in issue the alleged grounds of attachment against him. On the trial the issues were found in his favor, and the circuit court entered a judgment dissolving the attachment as to loth defendants. From that judgment Hill, Fontaine & Company appealed to the supreme court.. That court held that the…