Reiss v. Brady
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the Fourth Judicial District. The appellants, non-residents, sued the respondent, declaring for goods sold and delivered, in New York, in 1850, to the amount of $5,366.83. The plaintiff’s agent made affidavit that the defendant was indebted to the plaintiffs in that sum, over and above all legal set-offs, and that the defendant was a nonresident. An attachment was issued, and levied on the defendant’s goods.
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Appeal from the Fourth Judicial District. The appellants, non-residents, sued the respondent, declaring for goods sold and delivered, in New York, in 1850, to the amount of $5,366.83. The plaintiff’s agent made affidavit that the defendant was indebted to the plaintiffs in that sum, over and above all legal set-offs, and that the defendant was a nonresident. An attachment was issued, and levied on the defendant’s goods. The defendant moved to dissolve the attachment, upon his affidavit, stating that his property had been levied on, and was still held by virtue of said attachment, to the value…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam.—Justice Heydenfeldt.
No cause for dissolving the attachment being disclosed by the record in this cause, the order to that effect made by the District Court is reversed.
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