Feurer v. Stewart
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Washington
This was an action at law by Louis Feurer against Olive J. Stewart, and was commenced by an attachment against the defendant's property. The case is now heard on a motion to dissolve the attachment.
1Opinion of the Court
HANFORD, District Judge.
On a motion by the defendant to dissolve the attachment of the defendant’s property herein, two questions were argued, viz.: (1) Whether, under the Code of this state, a defendant in an attachment suit has a right to move to quash the writ, or dissolve an attachment, without first entering a general appearance in the action. (2) Whether the Code of this state authorizes a writ of attachment to issue in an action to recover unliquidated damages.
On the first question, I hold that, while the primary object of the attachment law is to provide security for the satisfaction…
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