Fleming v. Shields

Plaintiffs sued out writs of provisional seizure and attachment against the property of the defendant, who was an absentee, alleging he owed them the amount of an account for advances and supplies furnished his plantation, in the parish of Tensas. The products and movables on the place and defendant’s half interest in the plantation were seized under these writs by the sheriff "on second December, 1867. ’ •

The defendant accepted service and waived legal and technical formalities. He also admitted the correctness of the account sued on, and set up no defense against plaintiff’s demand.

On the…