Emerson v. Thatcher

The defendant in error brought this action to enforce the liability of plaintiff in error as a stockholder in the Clyde Banking Company, a corporation organized under the statutes of the State. Emerson is a nonresident, and the action was begun by an attachment levied upon land. The defendant appeared specially and moved the court to quash the writ of attachment, first, because the clerk had specified therein the probable amount of costs at one hundred dollars, instead of fifty dollars as the statute provides ; second, because the under-sheriff who levied the writ did not participate with the…