Fellows v. Kress

The proceedings in this case • were commenced by Kress ■ under the -act relative to foreign attachments. The appellants -appeared in the Court below and entered special bail. Kress thereupon' declared against- them in' assumpsit. The facts -of the case, so far as they are necessary to be . stated, were, that Kress being, indebted to the appellants in &■ large- sum of mo.ney, part of which was by promissory note bearing ..date the 21st of December, 1836,' for- the sum of 8,618 dollars and' 89 cents, and being also largely indebted to various other persons,-on ,the 9thtof March, 1837, entered…