Parks v. Watts
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Grawford county : Of January Term, 1886, No. 273. This was an attachment by Charles L. Parks and Robert T. Hazard, partners, doing business as Parks & Hazard, against Alfred Watts, an alleged fraudulent debtor, under the act of Assembly of 17th March, 1869, P. L. 8. The affidavit and bond required by the act were filed in the office of the prothonotary, on the 8th day of October, 1885, upon which day the writ of attachment was issued,…
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Grawford county : Of January Term, 1886, No. 273. This was an attachment by Charles L. Parks and Robert T. Hazard, partners, doing business as Parks & Hazard, against Alfred Watts, an alleged fraudulent debtor, under the act of Assembly of 17th March, 1869, P. L. 8. The affidavit and bond required by the act were filed in the office of the prothonotary, on the 8th day of October, 1885, upon which day the writ of attachment was issued, and was made returnable on the second Monday of November, 1885, it being the regular return day, or term of the court next…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was filed February 15th, 1886.
2Per curiam
The motion to quash the writ of certiorari is denied.- This proceeding by attachment being purely statutory is properly reviewable on certiorari. Wetherald v. Shupe, 16 W. N., 502.
The writ was not made returnable on the first return day next after the issuing thereof as commanded by the statute. The opinion of the learned judge fully sustains the conclusion at which he arrived, and there was no error in quashing the writ of attachment.
Judgment affirmed.
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