Supreme Court of Missouri January 15, 1850 (Temple v. Cochran)

BIRCH, J.

This was a suit by attachment. The words of the affidavit upon which it was issued being, “that the. said affiant has good reason to believe, and does believe, that the said defendant has absconded or absented herself from her usual place of abode in this State, so that the ordinary process of law cannot be served upon her.