Flower v. Parker

STORY, Circuit Justice.

The whole of this case turn upon the question, whether the trustee process, upon which Tarbell and Eveleth obtained judgment against the goods, credits, and effects of the plaintiff in the-hands of the defendants, is now a subsisting judgment, capable of being revived and enforced against the defendant; if so, it binds the property in his hands; if not, then the plaintiff has a right to recover. The question turns principally upon the true construction of the trustee act of this state (Act 1794, c. 65), sometimes called the "Foreign Attachment Act,” and of the act of…