Pettit v. United States Motor Co.

The plaintiff, who makes the sole affidavit in support of the warrant of attachment, is an assignee of the cause of action sued on. Although the plaintiff both in his complaint and affidavit makes positive averments upon his knowledge of an alleged contract between the plaintiff’s assignor and the defendant, and an alleged breach thereof by the defendant, and that the defendant is a foreign corporation, no facts or circumstances are stated from which the inference can fairly be drawn that he knows anything of the transactions between the original parties or that he knows that the defendant is…