Duke v. Automobile Supply Co.

1. In cases of attachment, the giving of a replevy bond, the filing of a general demurrer, and an answer, without protestation, each operates to convert the action from a suit in rem into an action in personam; and in such case, though the attachment itself may fail, the suit on the declaration is still maintainable. McAndrew v. Irish-American Bank, 117 Ga. 510 (43 S. E. 858); Cincinnati Railway Co. v. Pless, 3 Ga. App. 400 (60 S. E. 8); Philip Carey Co. v. Sheppard, 19 Ga. App. 368 (91 S. E. 444); Falligant v. Blitch, 19 Ga. App. 675 (91 S. E. 1057).

2. But where the allegations of a…