Cox v. Allen

The plaintiff was a resident of this state in the year 1890. In July of that year, he went to the state of Missouri, where he lived until June, 1891. On the second day of that month, he left Missouri and returned to Ottumwa, about noon of June sixth, and at 10 o’clock in the evening of the same day, the property in controversy, consisting of a team of horses, a harness, and wagon, was seized under a *464writ of attachment issued from justice’s court, in an action in which the defendant in this case was plaintiff and the plaintiff in this case was defendant. The action was founded on an account…