Upon the request of the plaintiff, separate or additional summons shall issue against any defendants. When the defendant shall not be found, the plaintiff may have an attachment against the estate of the defendant. If, upon such attachment, the sheriff shall seize or attach any property of the defendant, the same proceedings shall thereafter be had as if the suit had been originally commenced by attachment.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 58, art. 1 (40); 1857, ch. 61, art. 67; 1871, § 718; 1880, §§ 1534, 1851; 1892, § 3419; 1906, § 3918; Hemingway's 1917, § 2925; 1930, § 2970; 1942, § 1850; Laws, 1991, ch. 573, § 94, eff. 7/1/1991.
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