People ex rel. Young v. Craft
New York Court of Chancery
This was an appeal from an order of the vice chancellor of the first circuit discharging the defendant from arrest upon an attachment, at the suit of the appellant, for an alleged contempt, in not entering his appearance upon a subpoena supposed to have been served upon the wife of the defendant at his residence in New-York.
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
The objection of the defendant’s counsel that the proceedings are not properly entitled is not well taken. In proceedings in this court, between parties to the suit, for a contempt in not obeying the process of the court or any order or decree in the cause, the proceedings on the attachment may be and they usually arc entitled as in the original suit. But it is strictly regular to entitle them, as in this case, in the name of the people on the relation of the person prosecuting the attachment, against the defendant or party proceeded against in such attachment; al*326though the…
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