Brown v. Williams

Williams on the eighth day of March, 1877, commenced suit in attachment against Brown before a justice of the peace. The writ was made returnable March 17, 1877. The constable to whom it was delivered made return as follows: “ By virtue of the within attachment, I, Wm. F. Montague, on the 8th of March, 1877, seized the goods and chattels of the defendant mentioned in an inventory [attached], and on the same day, because the defendant could not be found in the *756county of Kalamazoo, I left a copy of the within attachment and of the said inventory, duly certified by me, at' the last place of…