Legal Opinion

White v. Murray

Supreme Court of Rhode Island

Decided April 19, 1897Published

Debt on bond given to release an attachment.

1Opinion of the CourtStiness, J.

Upon the decision of the exceptions in this case, the plaintiffs moved to take off the stay of execution which had been entered, but the defendants oppose it. They say that the judgment obtained in the case, in which the attachment bond now in suit was given, was suffered to be entered by default by the insolvent within four months of the filing of the petition. This is true ; but it was a suit brought and judgment obtained before the proceedings in insolvency were commenced, and there is nothing to show that there was any knowledge on the part of the.plaintiffs in the prior suit,- or even on…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Carpenter v. TurrellMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1868
  2. Garnett v. RoperSupreme Court of Alabama · 1846
  3. Dyer v. CleavelandSupreme Court of Vermont · 1846

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