108 Ky. 709 | Ky. Ct. App. | 1900
Opinion of the court by
Affirming.
On January 23, 1896, Hayden Turpin filed suit in the Madison Circuit Court against A. K. Lewis, to recover on
Section 198 of the Code of Practice requires the clerk, before issuing an order of attachment, to take a bond, with one or more sufficient sureties, of the plaintiff, to the effect that the plaintiff shall pay to the defendant all damages which he may sustain by reason of the attachment if the order be wrongfully obtained, not exceeding double the amount of the plaintiff’s claim. The purpose of this bond is to protect the attachment defendant in case the attachment is improperly obtained. If the