Roberts v. Drinkard

JUDGE DUVALL

delivered the opinion op the court :

This was a proceeding in equity to attach a debt alleged to have been owing by Roberts to R. P. Drinkard, on the ground that the latter was a non-resident. Roberts was not only summoned as a garnishee,but was made a defendant in the action, and answered as such. His answer disclosed substantially this state of fact: That he had bought from Drinkard his interest in a tract of land which had been owned by his father, supposed to contain 144 .acres, in which the interest of Drinkard was one-twelfth part undivided, subject to the claim of the widow…