Samuel v. Wiley

There is a suit in chancery now pending before this court, in which the present defendant seeks the aid of the court to compel specific performance, by this plaintiff, of the contract set up in the bill.

After the filing of the bill, the complainant appended to a copy thereof his affidavit, stating that “ the within named Patrick Samuel conceals his property so that no attachment or levy thereof can be made, and that there is good reason to believe, and that I believe, he is about to leave the State in order to avoid the payment of his debts.” Whereupon one of the justices of this court, in…