Tennessee River Transportation Co. v. Kavanaugh Bros.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Attachment Suit against Foreign Corporation.. Appeal from the City Court of Decatur. Tried before the Hon. War. H. Simpson.
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Attachment Suit against Foreign Corporation.. Appeal from the City Court of Decatur. Tried before the Hon. War. H. Simpson. This action was brought by Kavanaugh Brothers, suing as a partnership, against the appellant, a private corporation created under the laws of Tennessee; and was commenced by attachment sued out before the clerk of said City Court, on the 6th April, 1889. There was a motion to dissolve and dismiss the attachment', on grounds stated in the opinion; and exception was reserved to the overruling of this motion. The amended complaint, on which the trial was had, claimed $675,…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, C. J.
— The present suit was commenced by original attachment at law, against the appellant, a foreign corporation, incorporated under the laws of the State of Tennessee. The affidavit for attachment sets forth that “the Tennessee Biver Transportation Company is justly indebted to W. K. Kavanaugh and L. T. Kavanaugh, as partners composing the firm of Kavanaugh Brothers, in the sum of four hundred dollars, after allowing all just off-sets and discounts, and that the said Tennessee Biver Transportation Company resides out of the State of Alabama,” &c. Defendant moved to dissolve and quash the…
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