Sklar v. Bernstein

The plaintiff below instituted a damage suit against the defendant for slander. Ancillary to this suit the plaintiff sued out an attachment, which attachment ivas levied by garnishment on 2000 muskrat skins or furs, which were then in possession of the American Railway Express Company. The defendant had delivered the furs to the express company shortly before they were seized by the sheriff, to be shipped to New York City. The Fidelity & Deposit Company of Maryland, which is now complaining of the judgment below, became surety on the cost bond and the attachment bond of the plaintiff. The…