Case Name: Rumbough v. White
Court: Tennessee Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Tennessee
Decision Date: 1872-09
Citations: 11 Heisk. 260
Docket Number: 
Parties: Rumbough v. White.
Judges: 
Reporter: Tennessee Reports
Volume: 58
Pages: 260–261

Head Matter:
Rumbough v. White.
Attachment. Condemnation. Writ of Error. On a writ of error from a condemnation of land, the Supreme Court finding the judgment fatally defective, refused the condemnation and discharged the attachment. The defects were, that the justice in an attachment against a non-resident, failed to make publication; that he failed to stay judgment for six months; and that the affidavit failed to state the nature of the debt, or that it was a just debt.
PROM GREENE.
Writ of error from the Circuit Court of Greene county, June Term, 1871. E. E. Gillenwaters, J.
*Ingersoll, for Rumbough.
Pettibone & Robinson, for White.

Opinion:
NichoIiSON, C. J.,
delivered the opinion of the Court.
This case is here by writ- of error, for the purpose •of reversing a judgment of condemnation of land rendered in the Circuit Court of Greene county, at the June Term, 1871. The cause commenced by attachment before a justice of the peace, in favor of Lanson 'White against J. H. Eumbough, as a non-resident of the State. The attachment was levied on five thousand acres of land and returned before the justice of the peace on the 9th of October, 1869. Judgment was rendered for $123.76, on the 18th of December, 1869. The papers were returned to the Greene county Circuit Court, and judgment of condemnation entered, as already stated. This judgment is erroneous for several reasons:
1. The justice of the peace failed to stay the judgment for six months after the return of the process. Porter v. Partee, 7 Hum., 168.
2. The attachment issued upon an affidavit, which failed to state that the debt sued for was just, or to state the nature and character of the claim. Sullivan v. Fugate, 1 Heis., 20.
2. The justice of the peace failed to make publication for the non-resident, as required by section 3521 of the Code.
For these reasons, the judgment of the Circuit Court is reversed, and the attachmeut discharged and' dismissed.