Ala. Code § 6-6-255
Current with legislation from 2024 effective through May 17, 2024.
If the officer fails to find and take the goods and chattels, he may summon the defendant to appear as in other cases, and the plaintiff may then declare and prosecute the action alone for the recovery of the value of the property and damages for the taking and detention of the property as if he had thus commenced his action by a complaint.
Ala. Code § 6-6-255 (1975)