Cohen v. Drake

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dunbar, J.

One Louis Wallerstein was engaged in the wholesale and retail confectionary business in the city of Tacoma, and also dealt in cigars. Esherg, Bachman & Co., of Portland, Oregon, were creditors of the said Wallerstein, on the 26th of June, 1893, to the amount of $2,705. They brought their action to recover the same in the United States district court, and at the same time sued out a writ of attachment which was placed in the hands of the appellant, James C. Drake, who was United States marshal. In response to the writ the goods of Wallerstein…