Bank v. Evans

This is an attachment bill, filed in the Chancery Court of Sumner County, for the purpose of- subjecting a storehouse and stock of groceries to the satisfaction of complainant’s debt. The ground laid for the attachment was that the defendant was concealing himself so that the ordinary process of law could not be served upon him. A plea in abatement was filed by Evans traversing the ground of attachment. The Chancellor decreed that the plea was not supported by the evidence, and sustained the attachment. Defendant appealed, and the decree of the Chancellor was affirmed by the Court of Chancery…