Lecesne v. Cottin

The plaintiff and appellee commenced this suit by attachment, on an obligation made at Paris, in the year 1804, by J. B. Cottin, deceased; the defendant, who is his father, and a resident of France, became, by the death of the said J. B. Cottin, heir to *455two-thirds of his property. And judgment was demanded, that he be condemned to pay the same proportion of the note, on which this suit is brought.

East'n District. April, 1821.

The attachment was levied on credits and effects in the hands of garnishees.

The case was tried on its merits, and there was judgment for the plaintiff, from which this…