Genin & Lockwood v. Tompkins
New York Supreme Court
These three cases were appeals from orders entered at the ¡New-York special term, in May, 1851, denying the motions of the defendant to discharge the attachments granted in those actions respectively ; and allowing the plaintiffs therein to amend those attachments. . In the first of the above entitled cases, Sidney 0. Genin, one of the plaintiffs therein, made his affidavit on the 29th of January, 1851, stating that he and Le Grand Lockwood were brokers and partners in…
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These three cases were appeals from orders entered at the ¡New-York special term, in May, 1851, denying the motions of the defendant to discharge the attachments granted in those actions respectively ; and allowing the plaintiffs therein to amend those attachments. . In the first of the above entitled cases, Sidney 0. Genin, one of the plaintiffs therein, made his affidavit on the 29th of January, 1851, stating that he and Le Grand Lockwood were brokers and partners in business, in the city of ¡New-York, under the name and firm of Genin & Lockwood; that Ray Tompkins was indebted to them in…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
King, J.
In these three cases, an appeal has been taken from an order, at special term, allowing amendments to be made in each case, to the attachments issued therein, and upon such amendments being made, denying the motion of the defendant, to set aside such attachments. In their main features, the several cases are similar, and the principal questions involved, the same.
These questions may be reduced to two heads:
1. Those concerning the right to issue any attachment at all.
2. Those concerning the form of the attachments actually issued.
The attachments were, upon the argument,…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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