Allen v. Woodruff
Supreme Court of Connecticut
ACTION for fraud in contracting an alleged debt; brought originally before a justice of the peace. The defendant, a citizen of Massachusetts, residing in Boston, was arrested in Enfield in this state, upon a writ of attachment issued in the action, which was brought on Gen. Statutes § 1347. The fraud alleged was that the defendant contracted the debt “ with intent not to pay the same.”
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ACTION for fraud in contracting an alleged debt; brought originally before a justice of the peace. The defendant, a citizen of Massachusetts, residing in Boston, was arrested in Enfield in this state, upon a writ of attachment issued in the action, which was brought on Gen. Statutes § 1347. The fraud alleged was that the defendant contracted the debt “ with intent not to pay the same.” Special bail was given and judgment rendered against him, from which he appealed to the Court of Common Pleas. In that court an amendment to the complaint was filed, adding a second count in contract, for the…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
The plaintiff’s original complaint stated a cause of action under the statute for fraud in contracting a debt with intent not to pay it. Under this the defendant, a citizen of another state, while transiently here, was taken into custody on a writ of attachment against his body, and gave special bail. His appeal from the adverse judgment of the justice of the peace vacated that judgment, and the final judgment which he must abide in order to exonerate his bail now became that to be rendered in the appellate court. The appeal transferred the cause to that tribunal, not for the revision of…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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