Gager v. Watson
Supreme Court of Connecticut
IN ERROR. This was a bill in chancery, brought originally, by Watson, against William T. Gager, Moses Smith, William W. Ellsworth and John Butler, bsfore the county court, for an injunction and other relief. The facts were these. The plaintiff having recovered a judgment and taken out execution against Gager, for 28 dollars, 68 cents, had caused him. to be committed to prison; and he was discharged, on taking the poor debtor’s oath.
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IN ERROR. This was a bill in chancery, brought originally, by Watson, against William T. Gager, Moses Smith, William W. Ellsworth and John Butler, bsfore the county court, for an injunction and other relief. The facts were these. The plaintiff having recovered a judgment and taken out execution against Gager, for 28 dollars, 68 cents, had caused him. to be committed to prison; and he was discharged, on taking the poor debtor’s oath. Shortly afterwards, Gager obtained a judgment against Smith, for 50 dollars, or more. The plaintiff then brought foreign attachment on his judgment against Gager,…
1Opinion of the CourtChurch, J.
The plaintiff in the court below, as the foundation of the relief he seeks, alleges, that William T. Gager was indebted to him, by judgment, and had been legally discharged from imprisonment on that judgment; that Moses Smith was indebted to said Gager, by a judgment upon which ah execution had been duly issued ; that the plaintiff, by a pro cess of foreign attachment against said Gager, had attached the judgment debt due from Smith to Gager, to satify the same judgment debt from which said Gager's body had been released from imprisonment; which proceedings of foreign attachment are yet…
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