Madden v. Day

Pee Cubiam.

In reviewing the judgment of the district court, the court of appeals held that the lien of an attachment writ, secured by its levy before the passage of an act repealing that particular ground of attachment under which the writ issued, was still preserved; although the repealing act contained no special saving clause to that effect. This conclusion was based upon two grounds : first, that section 11 of article 2 of the constitution forbids the enactment of retrospective legislation, and as the lien, given under the repealed statute, constituted not merely a remedy but a fixed,…