Long v. Hood
Supreme Court of Georgia
Attachment bond. Attorney and client. Amendment. Before Judge Wright. Carroll Superior Court. April Term, 1872. For the facts of this case, see the decision. Oscar Reese, represented by W. D. Ellis for plaintiff in error, submitted the following brief: An attorney may sign his client’s name to an attachment bond: Code, sec. 3201. Attachment laws are liberally construed : 36 Ga. R., 90. Substantial compliance as to bond sufficient: Dudley’s R., 69 ; 3 Ga.
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Attachment bond. Attorney and client. Amendment. Before Judge Wright. Carroll Superior Court. April Term, 1872. For the facts of this case, see the decision. Oscar Reese, represented by W. D. Ellis for plaintiff in error, submitted the following brief: An attorney may sign his client’s name to an attachment bond: Code, sec. 3201. Attachment laws are liberally construed : 36 Ga. R., 90. Substantial compliance as to bond sufficient: Dudley’s R., 69 ; 3 Ga. R., 271; 5th Ibid., 178; Code, sec. 4. An instrument may be binding though signed in the body of it or on the back: 26 Ga. R., 223; Chitty…
1Opinion of the Court
Warner, Chief Justice.
This was an attachment taken out by the plaintiff’s attorney in the name of his client against the property of the defendant. The attachment bond was signed by Oscar Reese, attorney-at-law, for John Long. A motion was made to dismiss the attachment, on the ground that the bond was not a legal bond, which motion was sustained. The plaintiff then made a motion to amend the bond, which was refused by the Court. The property levied on had been replevied by the defendant. The plaintiff had filed his declaration in the case, and the defendant had appeared and filed his plea to…
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