Perry v. Dixie Guano Co.

This case grows out of an attachment proceeding instituted in the Civil and Police Justice court of the city of Suffolk, Virginia, by Dixie Guano Company, Incorporated, a Virginia corporation, against R. D. Boyce and J. E. Perry, principal defendant, based upon a judgment which the Dixie Guano Company had secured against the said defendants in the Superior Court of Chowan county in the state of North Carolina, that being their place of residence.

The attachment was quashed and the petition therefor dismissed by the civil and police justice court on the ground, among others, that the attachment…