G. M. Williams Co. v. Mairs
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action of contract on a writ which contained a process of foreign attachment, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New London County and tried to the court, Studley, J., upon motion to erase the cause from the docket owing to the lack of jurisdiction; the court held that its want of jurisdiction appeared upon the face of the record and thereupon granted the motion, and the plaintiff appealed for alleged errors in the rulings of the court.
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Action of contract on a writ which contained a process of foreign attachment, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New London County and tried to the court, Studley, J., upon motion to erase the cause from the docket owing to the lack of jurisdiction; the court held that its want of jurisdiction appeared upon the face of the record and thereupon granted the motion, and the plaintiff appealed for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. It appeared from the writ and complaint that the plaintiff was a Connecticut corporation, and that the defendants and garnishees were all residents of…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
The officer’s return states that service of the process in this action was made by leaving a copy at New London, on November 1st, with one of the garnishees named in the writ and therein described as copartners and inhabitants of the State of New York, and also by leaving a copy afterwards “ with at the usual place of abode of the within named defendant.” Assuming (without deciding) that the latter part of the return means something, and is not the result of a mere oversight in not striking out part of a printed form, it is plain that as the place of abode of each of the defendants, according…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Pennoyer v. NeffSupreme Court of the United States · 1878
- Clarke's Appeal from ProbateSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1898
- Green v. Farmers & Citizens' BankSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1857
- Ellis v. Atlantic Mutual InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
- Easterly v. GoodwinSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1868
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- Southern New England Distributing Corp. v. Berkeley Finance Corp.District Court, D. Connecticut · 1962
- Parker, Peebles & Knox v. El SaiehSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1928
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