Airston v. Bollinger

This is a proceeding in foreign attachment under the provisions of the Act of June 13, 1836, P. L. 572, and its supplements, for damages for a tort committed in this Commonwealth. The alleged tort is the wrongful detention and abduction of the plaintiff’s four-year-old daughter. The defendants are the grandparents of the child.

The case is now before us on a rule to quash the writ and dissolve the attachment for the reasons, inter alia,- that

6. The affidavit, being upon information and belief, ,is insufficient.

7. The sheriff’s return shows that there was no person in possession of the premises…