Family Finance Co. v. Downing

Where an attachment has been sued out returnable to a certain named term of court, and at such term it appears that the attachment has never been levied in any of the ways provided by law, such attachment is at an end. “If there has been no seizure of the property of the defendant before the return term, the court is without jurisdiction in the matter, and subsequent proceedings are invalid.” Albright-Pryor Co. v. Pacific Selling Co., 126 Ga. 502 (55 S. E. 251, 115 Am. St. R. 108). The court having failed to acquire jurisdiction at the return term, levy made or summons of garnishment issued…