Claymont v. Levitt

The plaintiff placed a restraining notice on the proceeds of artwork and other articles consigned for sale by the wife of the defendant judgment debtor. The defendant’s wife, in an affidavit, swore that these items were her property obtained prior to her marriage to the judgment debtor. The sole evidence submitted by the plaintiff to support his contention that the consigned property belonged to the defendant was a *579vague, nonspecific statement in his affidavit that the descriptions of "many” of the articles consigned for sale matched articles he had seen at the defendant’s house before the…