6-6-120
Section 6-6-120 In aid of pending action. When an action has been commenced by the filing of a complaint, whether a summons has been executed or not, the plaintiff, his agent, or attorney may, at any time before judgment, sue out an attachment in aid of such action, upon making affidavit and giving bond, as is required in the issue of original attachments, and all proceedings on such attachments must be conducted as are proceedings on original attachments. Such attachment may be sued out in any case in which an original attachment may be sued out and may be issued by the officer having authority to issue original attachments. (Code 1852, §§2566, 2567; Code 1867, §§2994, 2995; Code 1876, §§3319, 3320; Code 1886, §2967; Code 1896, §558; Code 1907, §2958; Code 1923, §6206; Code 1940, T. 7, §879.)...
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6-5-284
Section 6-5-284 Instrument lost or destroyed by theft, etc.; evidence of loss, destruction and contents; execution bond. (a) In an action commenced on a bond, note, bill of exchange, or other instrument which has been lost or destroyed by theft or otherwise, if affidavit is made by the plaintiff of such loss or destruction and the contents thereof and that the same has not been paid or otherwise discharged and accompanies the complaint, it must be received as presumptive evidence both of the contents and loss or destruction of such instrument, unless the defendant by answer, verified by affidavit, denies the execution of such bond, note, or bill or the endorsement, acceptance, or the contents thereof, in which case proof of such execution, endorsement, acceptance, or contents must be made by the plaintiff; provided, that this section must not be so construed as to authorize an action for the recovery of bank notes or bills issued to circulate as money and alleged to be lost or...
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6-8-100
Section 6-8-100 Answer of tender; judgment thereon. An answer of tender of money or of a thing in action must be accompanied by a delivery of the money or such thing in action to the clerk of the court. If the tender is of ponderous articles or other personal property, the answer must aver a readiness to deliver it to the plaintiff. Judgment for the defendant upon the answer vests the title to the thing tendered in the plaintiff, subject to any claim the defendant may have for his trouble in keeping it. (Code 1852, §§2245, 2246; Code 1867, §§2648, 2649; Code 1876, §§2997, 2998; Code 1886, §2585; Code 1896, §3298; Code 1907, §5334; Code 1923, §9473; Code 1940, T. 7, §228.)...
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28-4-224
Section 28-4-224 Requirement of bond as condition precedent to issuance of preliminary injunction. No bond shall be required as a condition precedent to the issuance of a preliminary injunction when the action is brought by the Attorney General of the state or a district attorney or deputy district attorney. (Acts 1909, No. 191, p. 63; Acts 1915, No. 2, p. 8; Code 1923, §4673; Code 1940, T. 29, §143.)...
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35-11-227
Section 35-11-227 Actions by employees, etc.; defense by contractor. (a) If the action is by an employee of the contractor, or by any person who has furnished to him material for the building or improvement, the contractor shall be a necessary party defendant thereto; and in such action on motion of the plaintiff, the owner or proprietor may be cited to answer under oath how much was owing by him to the contractor on his contract with such contractor, at the time of the service on him of the notice required by Section 35-11-218; and such answer may be controverted, and proceedings had and judgment entered as in garnishment cases. (b) When the lien is sought to be enforced by any person other than the contractor, it shall be the duty of the contractor to defend the action at his own expense; and after notice of an intention to file a statement of the lien, and pending the action, the owner or proprietor may withhold from the contractor money sufficient to cover the amount claimed, and...
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35-9-62
Section 35-9-62 Affidavit and bond. Before such attachment is issued, the plaintiff, or his agent or attorney, must make affidavit, setting forth the amount that is, or will be, due for the rent, that one of the causes for issuing an attachment prescribed in Section 35-9-61 exists, and that the attachment is not sued out for the purpose of vexing or harassing the defendant; and must also execute a bond in double the amount claimed, payable to the defendant, with sufficient surety, and with condition that the plaintiff will prosecute the attachment to effect, and pay the defendant all such damages as he may sustain from the wrongful or vexatious suing out of such attachment. (Code 1886, §3071; Code 1896, §2718; Code 1907, §4749; Code 1923, §8816; Code 1940, T. 31, §31.)...
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36-5-65
Section 36-5-65 When surety discharged. On the execution, approval and filing of such additional bond, such applicant shall be discharged as surety on the bond on which such application was made from all liability for any breach of the condition therein contained accruing subsequently to the filing of such additional bond. (Code 1852, §150; Code 1867, §189; Code 1876, §202; Code 1886, §297; Code 1896, §3129; Code 1907, §1545; Code 1923, §2679; Code 1940, T. 41, §128.)...
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37-2-62
Section 37-2-62 Action for damages. (a) If the value of such goods, property or chattels so lost, destroyed or not delivered, or the amount of damages or injury, where injured, shall not be paid or tendered to such person entitled thereto so presenting such verified claim therefor within the time prescribed in subsection (b) of Section 37-2-61, such person may, on bringing an action therefor and on making proof of such shipment and loss, or destruction, failure to deliver or injury to such goods, chattels or property, and the due presentation of such verified claim, or demand for the value of, or damage to such goods, property or chattels, and that such claim was not for more than such value or injury, and the failure of such transportation company to pay for the same within 60 days from the making of such demand, recover from the said transportation company fourfold damages, suffered by reason of such loss, destruction or injury, unless such loss, destruction or injury is the result...
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6-6-149
Section 6-6-149 Action by defendant - Venue for actions on injunction bond or attachment bond in cases of injunction or bankruptcy. The defendant in any action commenced by attachment, in any action in which an injunction against him is issued, or in any proceeding against him as a bankrupt, may commence an action on the attachment bond or injunction bond, as the case may be, against the plaintiffs as for malicious prosecution, and upon the bond of the petitioning creditors, against the petitioning creditors as for a malicious prosecution, in the county where the writ is levied; and in case of bankruptcy, in the county where the goods, property, and effects were seized and located; or such actions may be commenced in the county where the plaintiff in attachment resides or any of the sureties reside; and, in cases of bankruptcy, where the petitioning creditors or anyone of them reside; and, in the cases of injunction, where the plaintiff or any surety on his bond resides. (Code 1896,...
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6-6-431
Section 6-6-431 Bond in double amount; dissolution of garnishment and discharge of all garnishees; judgment against obligors. (a) The defendant may, instead of the bond mentioned in Section 6-6-430, give bond in double the amount of the plaintiff's demand, payable to the plaintiff, with sufficient surety, to be approved by the judge or clerk and conditioned to pay such judgment as may be entered or ascertained to exist in favor of the plaintiff and against the defendant in the case and costs of the action. Thereupon, the garnishment is dissolved and the garnishee discharged and need not answer; and, upon the trial of the case, if judgment is entered or ascertained to exist in favor of the plaintiff against the defendant, the court must also enter judgment against the obligors in the bond for the amount of such judgment, interest thereon and costs of the action. (b) The giving of the bond authorized in this section operates to discharge all garnishees in the case, whether one or more....
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