Chase v. Ninth National Bank
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Venango county: No. 80, to October and November Term 1867. This was a foreign attachment in an action of assumpsit, issued January 1st 1866, by The Ninth National Bank of the City of New York against George K. Chase.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Venango county: No. 80, to October and November Term 1867. This was a foreign attachment in an action of assumpsit, issued January 1st 1866, by The Ninth National Bank of the City of New York against George K. Chase. On the 22d of December 1865, the same plaintiff had issued a summons in assumpsit against the defendant, which was served on him; the declaration laid the damages at $40,000; also another summons in assumpsit on the 28th of the same month, which was served personally; the declaration laid the damages at $50,000. In the foreign attachment the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, January 7th 1868, by
Read, J.
This was a foreign attachment against the defendant, a person not residing within this Commonwealth, and not being in the county in which the writ issued at the time of the issuing thereof. It is alleged, however, by the defendant that he is not within this provision, because, although a resident of the state of New York, and not within the county at the time of the issuing of the writ, he comes within the first section of the Act of 21st April 1858, Pamph. L. 403, being engaged in business in the county of Yenango, and had…
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