Myers's administrator v. Forsythe

Prior to the 26th of October, 1867, several persons, creditors of John M. Alexander, instituted actions in the Woodford Circuit Court against him, and procured orders of attachment ■against his estate, on the ground that he had been absent from the state for more than four months.

It seems that the defendant had no real estate in Kentucky, but that he had rented a farm from S. P. Porter in Woodford County, where he with' his wife and five children was residing and keeping house, and where he left his family in January, 1867, when he left with horses,' mules, and sheep for the New Orleans…