Omnium De Participations Industries De Luxe (S. A.) v. Spoturno

Harrington, J.,

delivering the opinion of the Court:

These cases are before us on the motions of the defendants, the administrators of Joseph Marie Francois Spoturno, sometimes known as Coty, or Spoturno-Coty, to vacate and set aside the plaintiffs’ writs of attachment and the service and returns thereon in the foreign attachment proceedings instituted by them against the defendants’ intestate, during his lifetime.

A foreign attachment is purely a statutory proceeding, Rev. Code 1935, §§ 4630-4635; see, also, Rev. Code 1935, § 2124, but the statute is based on the custom of London merchants in…