H. Simons & Co. v. Jacobs

This suit was commenced by attachment. The indebtedness arises upon promissory notes amounting to ©952 37, and interest.

The defence is, that the affidavit upon which the attachment issued is untrue. The defendant is an Englishman. He was a daguerrotypist, and had rooms for his business in this city, and with his wife boarded at a boarding-house.

In July, 1858, some time after the maturity of the notes sued on, he sold out his establishment and visible effects, with the exception of a negro boy, for whom he left verbal instructions with his agent for the collection of debts, to give him his…