Peacock v. Rothwell

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

HARTWELL, C.J.

The defendant, as executor, having brought an action against the plaintiff to recover the sum of $554 payable for rents, taxes and water rates on a lease from the decedent and having obtained an attachment of the plaintiff’s collection of stamps on *465the ground, averred in his complaint, that the plaintiff was about to remove his property from the jurisdiction of the court “with the intent to dispose of the same in fraud of his creditors,” the attachment was dissolved on the plaintiff’s motion by consent of the defendant who subsequently discontinued the…