Maris v. Schermerhorn
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
A writ of foreign attachment in case issued out of this Court, returnable to the present term, in which Maris & Son were plaintiffs, and Schermerhorn and Marsh were defendants.
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A writ of foreign attachment in case issued out of this Court, returnable to the present term, in which Maris & Son were plaintiffs, and Schermerhorn and Marsh were defendants. On the writ was the following endorsement,— “Attach goods, wares and merchandise, and credits of the defendants, in the hands, pospession, name, power, custody or control of Samuel Snelling, jun., and Samuel Snelling jun. & Hampton L. Carson, trading as Snelling & Company, and summon them as garnishees.” The following return was made on the writ— “Attached as within commanded, and summoned S. Snelling and H. L. Carson…
1Per curiam
We cannot force the sheriff to amend his return; but as the counsel for the garnishees has moved, that the sheriff have permission to amend, the motion will be granted. If he should not do so, the defendants and garnishees will not be injured; but on the return of the scire facias against them, the garnishees may show the facts, if they will be of any avail, presented in the affidavits filed.
Cited by Counsel, 1 Barr, 18.
Cited by the Court, 1 P. P. Smith, 252.
See also 5 Barr, 519.
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