Maertens v. Scott

The plaintiff, a resident of the city of Providence, brought his action in assumpsit against the defendant, a resident of Salt Lake City, in the state of Utah, and sought to secure jurisdiction in this state by attaching his personal estate in the hands of the Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company, a domestic corporation. At the time of the service of the writ there was no personal property or estate in the hands or possession of the said Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company, but there were in its hands and possession certain certificates of stock in the Scott Mines Company, a Nevada…