Bloom v. Lehman, Newgass & Co.

This action was brought against the appellant on a note for fourteen hundred dollars. The answer, by way of defense, alleges:

First. A partial payment to the amount of $>566 06.

Second. Says he is entitled to two thousand dollars as damages due him from appellees, by reason of the false and fraudulent suing out against him of a writ of attachment, whereby they seized upon and attached the property of the appellant and damaged him in his goods, wares and merchandize, and good name and credit as a merchant, in the sum of two thousand dollars, which sum he offers to set off and make a…