Watson v. Kennedy

This suit was instituted for the "recovery of damages, alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff in consequence of the illegal seizure of his property by defendant.

It is alleged, that on the 27th August, 1850, defendant instituted suit against plaintiff by attachment, as endorser of a note for $1035. That under this proceeding, property of the value of from two thousand seven hundred to three thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars, and money to the amount of two thousand five hundred dollars were attached—amounts much jnore than sufficient to satisfy the demand of the attaching…