Shuster v. Finan

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Brewer, J.:

In an action before a justice of the peace certain property was attached as the property of the defendant therein. The defendant in error interposed in that action, under and by virtue of ch. 164 of the laws of 1872, as a claimant of the property attached. A jury was demanded to try this claim. After the trial had been progressing for three days, and before its close, the following proceedings were had and entered upon the docket of said justice, to-wit:

“Now comes the claimant in person, and by his attorneys Ady & Eeid, and the…