Tri-State Motor Corp. v. Standard Steel Car Co.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Appeal, from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Action by the Standard Steel Car Company, a corporation, against the Tri-State Motor Corporation and another. From an orde.r over-, ruling a motion to dissolve an attachment, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
SMYTH, Chief Justice.
From an order overruling a motion to dissolve an attachment the appellants, who were defendants below, bring this appeal by leave of court under section 226 of the Code.
The appellee commenced an action against the appellants and sued out an attachment, which was levied on their goods, giving the bond required by Code, § 445. The appellants say that it should have given the undertaking provided for by Code, § 479a (added by Act Cong. April 19, 1920, 41 Stat. 564), and that its failure to do so rendered the attachment void. This position is bottomed upon the assumption that…
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