Beach v. Viles
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR to the circuit court of the United States, for the district of Massachusetts. The. original process in this case was founded- on the sta- ‘ tute of Massachusetts; passed 28th of February 1-795, entitled “ an-aet to enable creditors to receive their just demands out of the goods, effects, and credits of their, debtors, when the same cannot :be attached, by the ordinary process of law.” In said process it is alleged that Loud and Hunt, being indebted to.
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ERROR to the circuit court of the United States, for the district of Massachusetts. The. original process in this case was founded- on the sta- ‘ tute of Massachusetts; passed 28th of February 1-795, entitled “ an-aet to enable creditors to receive their just demands out of the goods, effects, and credits of their, debtors, when the same cannot :be attached, by the ordinary process of law.” In said process it is alleged that Loud and Hunt, being indebted to. George Beach, as set' forth in the process, refused to pay the same, to his damage $.4000;.aiid/in the process it.-is also alleged -that…
1Opinion of the Court
jl^fr Justice Story
■ delivered, the opinion, of the Court. After stating the fácts, he proceeded as follows:
■The present being; a suit upon a local statute, giving a -particular remedy in the nature of a foreign attachment against garnishees, who possess go.ods, effects: or credits of" the principal debtor,, the decisions which have been made, upon the construction of that statute by the state courts,,are. entitled to great respect; and ought in conformity to the uniform practice of this Court to govern our own. decisions. This consideration saves us from the necessity of discussing many of…
2Cited by1 opinion
- George Beach, in Error v. Jonathan Viles in ErrorSupreme Court of the United States · 1829