Kansas City Packing Co. v. Hoover
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
The appellee brought an action of assumpsit against the appellant in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, and at the same time sued out several writs of foreign attachment against several persons as garnishees. The appellant moved to quash the writs, which motion was overruled, and judgments of condemnation were rendered against the credits in the hands of the garnishees.
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The appellee brought an action of assumpsit against the appellant in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, and at the same time sued out several writs of foreign attachment against several persons as garnishees. The appellant moved to quash the writs, which motion was overruled, and judgments of condemnation were rendered against the credits in the hands of the garnishees. This was a hearing on an appeal by the defendant below from the order of the court overruling his motion to quash the writs, and from the judgments of condemnation. The Court in its opinion stated the case as…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shepard
x. The statutes of Elizabeth for the prevention of fraudulent conveyances, are in full force in the District of Columbia, and have stood without a single amendment (until the act of Congress of February 24, 1893, regulating assignments for the benefit of creditors, Supp. R. S., Vol. 2, p. 90, which has no bearing on the present case), and its courts, so far as we can ascertain, have always given them application in the spirit of Lord Mansfield, who said of them:
“ They cannot receive too liberal a construction, or be too much extended in the suppression of fraud.” Cadogan v. Kennett, 4 Cowp.,…
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