Cooper v. Reynolds

ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, the case being thus:

The code of Tennessee of 1857-8, under its chapter on ATTACHMENTS, thus provides:

§ 3455. Any person having a debt or demand due at the commencement of an action; or a plaintiff after action for any cause has been brought, and either before or after judgment, may sue out an attachment at law or in equity against the property of a debtor or defendant in the following cases:

2. Where he is about to remove or has removed himself from the State.

5. Where he absconds or is absconding or concealing himself or property.

§ 3462. Attachments sued out in aid of a suit already brought shall be made returnable to the court or justice before whom the suit is pending.