Ackroyd v. Ackroyd

This action was commenced in 1858, and was at issue on complaint and answer more than a year before the warrant of attachment was granted.

The motion is founded on the pleadings, as well as on the affidavit of the plaintiff, upon which the attachment was granted, and also the affidavit of the defendant.

The complaint alleges a partnership between the parties, a dissolution thereof, an assignment of the plaintiff’s interest to the defendant, and the defendant’s agreement to pay the partnership liabilities, &c., and divide the surplus. That the assets and liabilities were large; that there is a…