Simmons v. California Powder Works

The sole question presented by the record in this case is, whether the fourteenth subdivision of § 1 of the attachment act of 1881 constitutes a separate and specific ground of attachment; one in addition to those enumerated in § 92 of the Civil Code, of which the act of 1881 is amendatory.

The first paragraph of the section is as follows:

“No writ of attachment shall issue unless the plaintiff, his agent or attorney, or some credible person for him, shall file in the office of the clerk of a district court, or in the office of the clerk of a county court, in the state, or with the judge of…