Barbour v. Paige Hotel Co.
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Hearing on an appeal by the plaintiff from an order of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, holding a law term, sustaining a motion to quash a writ of attachment.
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Hearing on an appeal by the plaintiff from an order of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, holding a law term, sustaining a motion to quash a writ of attachment. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion. 1. There is a conflict of authorities as to what constitutes a non-resident under the several attachment laws of this country, but the trouble has been principally owing to the divergence of views as to the difference between domicile, citizenship and residence; but this question cannot arise in this case, because “the legal existence, the home, the domicile, the habitat,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shepard
This case is here on appeal from a judgment quashing a writ of attachment sued out by appellant, in the Supreme Court of the District, against the appellee, which is a corporation organized under the laws of New. Jersey, for the purpose of doing business in the District.
1. The record shows that the court in special term heard the motion to quash upon the affidavits of plaintiffs and the traversing affidavits of defendant. The point is made by appellee, for the first time, on the argument, that these affidavits are not part of the record' proper at common law, and that the objection to the…
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