Jonnet v. Dollar Savings Bank of City of New York

OPINION

TEITELBAUM, District Judge.

Foreign attachment is the process used to commence a civil action by which the property of a foreign, that is, out-of-state debtor is attached for the satisfaction of a debt or claim due the plaintiff. This case, before the Court on defendant’s motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction, calls in question the constitutionality of the Pennsylvania Foreign Attachment statutes. 1

The issue before the Court is not one which lends itself to simplistic application of precedent. A review of the cases raising this and analogous issues in federal courts makes clear…