H. Kendall Carter & Co. v. Lewis

Land, J.'

The plaintiffs instituted this suit for the recovery of a plantation, and a certain number of slaves, together with the fruits and revenues of the same. They subsequently filed a supplemental petition, and for the causes therein set forth, prayed for the issue of a writ of sequestration. The writ was granted, and the plantation, slaves and then growing crops of cotton and corn, were sequestered by the Sheriff.

The defendants filed a motion to dissolve the writ of sequestration, on the following grounds :

1. That the grounds of apprehension are not specified, or mentioned in the…