Naumburg v. Hyatt

The fund in controversy between the parties to this motion came into the possession and under the control of this court by virtue of attachment proceedings instituted by the plaintiffs as a provisional remedy in their civil action, commenced on the eighteenth day of October, 1884, to recover a debt of the defendants, J. E. Hyatt and J. Willis, merchants, trading under the name and style of “ J. R. Hyatt & Co. ” The warrant of attachment was founded upon an affidavit of an agent of the plaintiffs, alleging that the defendants, on the ninth day of October, 1884, with the intent to hinder and…