Jacobson v. Coon

SIMONS, Circuit Judge.

In an appeal from an order of the District Court quashing a writ of garnishment ancillary to a suit for damages suggested as exceeding $15,000,000, but claiming only $6,500,000, the parties stipulated to submit their controversy upon briefs. Whether decision to forego oral argument springs from supreme confidence in his case by each litigant or denotes complete lack of it, we are unable to determine, especially as-we are not advised of the amount of the deposit sequestered by the writ. Upon the view that the alleged damages were not ascertainable from the bill of…