Wholesale Grocers Corp. v. Richheimer Brokerage Co.

Plaintiff brought an action of replevin against the defendant seeking to recover 268 cases of salmon of the value of $2,144. None of the goods being taken on the writ, the action was changed to trover. After-wards, plaintiff sued out an attachment in aid and the City State Bank of Chicago was served as garnishee. It filed its answer to interrogatories admitting an indebtedness to the defendant of $77.22.

At the beginning of the trial, which was had before the court without a jury, counsel for the defendant moved that the attachment be quashed on the ground that an attachment in aid would not…