Shelters v. Boudreau
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Foreign Attachment. The trustees, Morin and Lucier, are partners and are so described' in the writ, and are indebted as partners to the defendants. The officer returns that he attached, &c., and summoned the trustees by giving an attested copy of the writ to Morin. The trustees do not object to the service. Lanzon, a claimant, moved that the trustees be discharged.
1Opinion of the CourtAllen, J.
The statutory provision that a trustee writ “ shall be served upon the defendant and trustee like a writ of summons” (G. L., c. 249, s. 3), and the later provision that “process may be served and notice given by duly attested copy ” (Laws 1883, c. 22), have no bearing on the question whether an attachment was made in this case by giving an attested copy to Morin, one of the two partnership trustees. Where there is no service of the writ on the trustee, but only his waiver of service, there is no attachment as against the defendant. A trustee can waive his own but not the defendant’s rights.…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Nelson v. SanbornSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1886