Ammon v. Thompson

On the second of September, 1861, the plaintiff in error brought suit against the defendant in error in the District 'Court of Fayette county, on two promissory notes, amounting in the aggregate to something upward of two hundred dollars. The suit was commenced by attachment, sued out upon an aBdavit which charged that the defendant, who had been the publisher of a newspaper in the town of La Grange, had stopped the publication of his paper; had left the State of Texas, and gone to the State' of Mississippi to reside; had left no property in the State, ■except the presses, furniture and…