Forbes Piano Co. v. Owens

In a justice’s court in Gordon county, Owens et al. sued out an attachment against Fields, the ground of attachment being that Fields “ has left this county,” and the indebtedness alleged as the basis of the suit being $100, besides interest and attorney’s fees. This attachment was levied on a piano as the property of the defendant, and a claim to the property was filed by the plaintiff in error, the E. E. Forbes Piano Company. On the trial of the claim case before the justice, the claimant moved to dismiss the attachment, because the affidavit on which it was based set out no ground of…