Taliaferro v. Lane
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error to the Circuit Court or Limestone. Tried before the Hon, Thomas A, Walker. George W. Lane, the defendant in error, sued out an attachment before a justice of the peace, returnable to the Circuit Court, against John T. Menifee, as administrator of Hickman Lewis, deceased, on a debt due to him from the intestate.
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Error to the Circuit Court or Limestone. Tried before the Hon, Thomas A, Walker. George W. Lane, the defendant in error, sued out an attachment before a justice of the peace, returnable to the Circuit Court, against John T. Menifee, as administrator of Hickman Lewis, deceased, on a debt due to him from the intestate. The attachment was levied on a negro boy, and R. M. Taliaferro, the plaintiff in error, interposed a claim under the statute, as trustee for the children of said Lewis, under a deed of gift from Mrs. Crabb, their grandmother. Menifee, the administrator, pleaded non assumpsit, and…
1Opinion of the CourtLigon, J.
The first question arising out of the errors assigned in tho record before us, relates to the action of the court below in allowing the attachment in the case of Lane v. Menifee, administrator of Hickman Lewis, dec’d, to be read to the jury.
It was on the levy made under this process that the claim of the plaintiff in error was interposed; and it is here contended that the attachment, being issued against the estate of a person who was a resident of this State at tho time of his death, and whose administrator is appointed by the courts of this - State, and amenable to them on his bond, is…
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