Fleet v. Lockwood
Supreme Court of Connecticut
IN ERROR. This was an action of replevin, for certain goods and chattels, which had been attached, as the property of Patrick Laurie, by the defendant, a deputy sheriff, returnable to the county court of Fairfield county, at its term in December, 1840. At the time of issuing the writ of replevin, due notice being given to the attaching creditor, a bond was taken of the following tenor: “We, Patrick Laurie and Stephen B. Provost, acknowledge ourselves jointly and severally…
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IN ERROR. This was an action of replevin, for certain goods and chattels, which had been attached, as the property of Patrick Laurie, by the defendant, a deputy sheriff, returnable to the county court of Fairfield county, at its term in December, 1840. At the time of issuing the writ of replevin, due notice being given to the attaching creditor, a bond was taken of the following tenor: “We, Patrick Laurie and Stephen B. Provost, acknowledge ourselves jointly and severally bound to said Davis Lockwood, in a bond of 100 dollars, that said Daniel Fleet shall prosecute the writ of replevin now…
1Opinion of the CourtStorrs, J.
The first question presented for our advice, is, whether the county court erred in rendering judgment that the writ of replevin should abate. This involves, in the first place, the inquiry, whether the act for the regulation of civil actions, (section 1.) providing, that if the plaintiff is not an inhabitant of this state, he shall procure surety in a bond to prosecute his action to effect, applies to the action of replevin. This statute is sufficiently broad in its terms to include this action; it is general in its language, and embraces all civil actions ; and there is no reason why the…
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