Preston v. McNeil Lumber Co.

ARCHBALD, District Judge.

This is a foreign attachment in assumpsit, originally brought in the common pleas of Tioga county, Pa., to recover a balance of $2,800 claimed to be due by the defendants, on a sale of timber; the property attached consisting of certain logs and lumber in the hands of the garnishee, and bail to dissolve being fixed by the plaintiff at $5,000. The action was brought. Jan*556uary 19, 1905, and the defendants appeared promptly on January 23 d, giving bail in the required amount on March 6th following. Nothing further was done, however, until August 15th, when the plaintiff…