de Paris v. Wilmington Trust Co.
Supreme Court of Delaware
Foreign attachment by the Wilmington Trust Company, administrator against Isabel M. R. de Paris, under which defendant’s shares of stock in a Delaware corporation were seized. The defendant appeared by giving security, thereby dissolving the attachment. The case was pleaded to issue. Trial by jury. Verdict for the plaintiff. Judgment entered. Defendant brings error. Judgment reversed.
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Foreign attachment by the Wilmington Trust Company, administrator against Isabel M. R. de Paris, under which defendant’s shares of stock in a Delaware corporation were seized. The defendant appeared by giving security, thereby dissolving the attachment. The case was pleaded to issue. Trial by jury. Verdict for the plaintiff. Judgment entered. Defendant brings error. Judgment reversed. S. c. on demurrer 5 Boyce 565, 96 Atl. 30. The declaration consisted of the common counts and thereafter from time to time three amendments, each consisting of additional counts. The defendant demurred generally…
1Opinion of the Court
The motion was refused,
Heisel, J.,
delivering the following opinion:
The testimony introduced by the plaintiff shows that during the year 1911, Joseph J. Paris, son of the defendant, was the maker of several instruments of writing in the nature of promissory notes and an account current wherein he obligated himself to pay to certain banks in Maracaibo, Venezuela, the several sums of money mentioned in said instruments of writing.
At the same time the plaintiff’s intestate Federico Evaristo Schemel, and the defendant, Isabel M. R. de Paris guaranteed the payment of the sums of money mentioned in…
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