Jonesboro Production Credit Ass'n v. Tatum

Jonesboro Production Credit Association, on July 12, 1938, instituted a suit in trover in the municipal court of Atlanta, against Irvin Tatum, for the recovery of a pair of mules and' som^ farm implements, and, accompanying the suit, made the necessary affidavit requiring bail. On the defendant’s failure to produce the property, or to give bail, he was arrested and lodged in jail. On the following day, July 13, 1938, the defendant, as authorized under Code, § 107-205, filed with the judge of the municipal court a petition for release on the ground that the *557defendant was unable to produce the…