Brooks v. Todd

There are two grounds on which the present motion is rested: 1. That the charge of a fraudulent disposition of property is untrue. 2. That the present action is founded on a judgment rendered by a Justice of the Peace; that in the course of the proceedings before the Justice, the same charge was made, and decided not to be tenable, and the order of attachment issued upon it was discharged. It is, therefore, claimed that both the present action and the order of attachment issued in it, are vexatious and should be dismissed.

Upon the first ground, affidavits have been offered, on the part, both…